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7. Operational Amplifier RC Low-Pass Filter

Authors : Heimo Uhrmann, Robert Kolm, Horst Zimmermann

Published in: Analog Filters in Nanometer CMOS

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

Several applications pose challenges for wireless receivers due to close blockers in the frequency spectrum. This requires amplifiers and filters with a high linearity. Due to the challenges of the nanometer hell of physics concerning design of operational amplifiers, new circuit architectures will be investigated. In fact, it will turn out that the low supply voltage of nanometer CMOS circuits is the most limiting factor to achieve a good linearity and a large dynamic range. A high-voltage operational amplifier finally will show the best performance in a filter-mixer combination. In addition, 1/f noise will turn out to reduce the choice of usable mixer topologies considerably.

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Title: Operational Amplifier RC Low-Pass Filter
Authors: Heimo Uhrmann
Robert Kolm
Horst Zimmermann
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book: Analog Filters in Nanometer CMOS
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-38012-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-38013-6

Copyright Year: 2014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38013-6_7