A compact power-efficient 3 V CMOS rail-to-rail input/output operational amplifier for VLSI cell libraries

Abstract

This paper presents a two-stage, compact, power-efficient 3 V CMOS operational amplifier with rail-to-rail input and output ranges. Because of its small die area of 0.04 mm/sup 2/, it is very suitable as a VLSI library cell. The floating class-AB control is shifted into the summing circuit, which results in a noise and offset of the amplifier which are comparable to that of a three stage amplifier. A floating current source biases the combined summing circuit and the class-AB control. This current source has the same structure as the class-AB control which provides a power-supply-independent quiescent current. Using the compact architecture, a 2.6 MHz amplifier with Miller compensation and a 6.4 MHz amplifier with cascoded-Miller compensation have been realized. The opamps have, respectively, a bandwidth-to-supply-power ratio of 4 MHz/mW and 11 MHz/mW for a capacitive load of 10 pF.< >