Presentation
A Simple Low-Voltage Cascode Current Mirror with Enhanced Dynamic Performance
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Subthreshold Microelectronics Conference
(2012)
Abstract
In this paper, we present a simple low-voltage MOS cascode current mirror featuring a step response and an output voltage swing comparable to those of a simple mirror and and output resistance comparable to that of a stacked mirror. The proposed mirror operates with an input voltage of Vdiode+VDSsat and can operate on a minimum supply of Vdiode + 2VDSsat. We validate the proposed mirror with a combination of simulated and measured results from a circuit prototyped from transistor arrays fabricated in a 0.5-μm CMOS process through MOSIS.
Keywords
- mirror,
- low-power electronics,
- CMOS
Disciplines
Publication Date
October 9, 2012
Citation Information
Bradley A. Minch. "A Simple Low-Voltage Cascode Current Mirror with Enhanced Dynamic Performance" Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Subthreshold Microelectronics Conference (2012) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/bradley_minch/49/
© 2012 IEEE. This article was published in the Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Subthreshold Microelectronics Conference, p. 77-79, and can be found here.