Bicmos inverter operational amplifiers

The characteristics are divided into five regions of operations discussed as below : Region A : In this region the input voltage of inverter is in the range 0 Vin VTHn. V dd and V ss are standing for drain and source respectively. Once you understand the properties and operation of an inverter then we can extend the concepts to understand any other logic gate. An inverter is the simplest logic gate which implements the logic operation of negation. Also, the maximal operation frequency of the CMOS inverter is related to the propagation delay. The average switching power dissipation estimate by expression 8 will hold for the CMOS inverter, when the leakage power is neglected.

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• BiCMOS Technology Processes, Trends, and Applications
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• BiCMOS Technology: Fabrication and Applications
• MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
• US4948990A - BiCMOS inverter circuit - Google Patents
• BiCMOS Devices
• BICMOS Inverter Circuit Diagram
• A SiGe BiCMOS Instrumentation Channel for Extreme Environment Applications
• Datasheet Texas Instruments UCC2805-W — Даташит
• Transimpedance amplifier photodiode receiver circuit

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BiCMOS Technology Processes, Trends, and Applications

Greenwell, Jeremy A. Yager, Benjamin S. Broughton, Guoyuan Fu, Benjamin J. Blalock, Charles L. Britton, M. Nance Ericson, H.

Alan Mantooth, Mohammad M. Mojarradi, Richard W. Berger, John D. An instrumentation channel is designed, implemented, and tested in a 0. The circuit features a reconfigurable Wheatstone bridge network that interfaces an assortment of external sensors to signal processing circuits.

Also, analog sampling is implemented in the channel using a flying capacitor configuration. This work demonstrates the use of a commercially available first generation SiGe BiCMOS process in designing circuits suitable for extreme environment applications.

There are numerous applications prompting interest in developing SoC System-on-Chip integrated systems. Space exploration presents a niche area wherein extreme environmental conditions pose several design constraints. At present, robotic exploration rovers have all the critical electronics inside a temperature-controlled Warm Electronics Box WEB [ 1 ]. This dictates a centralized architecture wherein data processing happens in the WEB and the generated control signals are communicated to various parts of the rover through extensive cables.

Developing electronic circuits that are capable of reliable operation under extreme environmental conditions facilitates the use of a distributed architecture. This eliminates extensive cabling and thus increases the system reliability.

In addition, significant reductions in power consumption, launch volume, and weight and therefore, launch cost are achieved. The objective of this work is to develop a highly integrated front-end and signal processing circuitry capable of reliable operation in extreme conditions.

Also, the use of a multi-channel analog-to-digital converter ADC aids in allowing high levels of circuit integration. In this work, numerous external sensors are interfaced to a multi-channel ADC via the universal channels as the front-end interface.

This paper presents the design and implementation of a universal channel suitable for low speed signals. Measurement results from the channel are also discussed. Section 2 presents an overview of the channel and its components.

Section 3 discusses in detail the design and implementation of the individual components of the universal channel. The design techniques for reliable operation in extreme environment are discussed in Section 4. Section 5 presents the measurement results and finally Section 6 concludes this work. The universal channel is a low-speed instrumentation channel that is capable of interfacing signal processing circuits with various transducers including thermocouples, RTDs Resistance Temperature Detectors , pressure gauges, and strain gauges.

Radiation-hardening-by-design RHBD circuitry is implemented in the digital circuits while special layout techniques render the analog circuits in the channel to be radiation tolerant. Numerous industrial channel designs [ 2 — 4 ] are available; however, this is the first multi-channel custom IC designed to operate across a wide temperature range extending down to cryogenic temperatures reported in the literature.

Several versions of the universal channel were successfully fabricated and tested with the most recent version fabricated and tested in mid [ 5 ].

Figure 1 shows, the Wheatstone bridge, the high-voltage level shifting buffer, the flying capacitor network, and the level shifting buffer form the front-end of the analog sampling channel. The Wheatstone bridge is designed to be reconfigurable in order to interface with a variety of external transducers.

The circuit works on the principle that any change in the bridge resistance, corresponding to a physical change in the sensor, is converted into a differential voltage that is sampled and processed.

The high common-mode voltage differential output from the Wheatstone bridge is level shifted to the low-voltage level below 3. The flying capacitor network performs the analog sampling in the universal channel and provides high input common-mode rejection. Following this stage, a level shifter shifts the common-mode voltage of the channel to the center of the input range of the Wilkinson ADC, which is the next signal processing stage. The sampled analog signal from the flying capacitor network is converted to digital data using the Wilkinson ADC.

This section describes the design and operation of the individual blocks of the universal channel as well as the Wilkinson ADC. The Wheatstone Bridge Network is designed to interface with various sensors.

Figure 2 presents a simplified schematic of the Wheatstone bridge network. This programmable bridge has three signal connections, two of which are used in any given configuration. This structure, in conjunction with the two switches in the bottom legs, provides the flexibility to have different configurations that interface with either full-bridge, half-bridge, or quarter-bridge resistive sensors.

Since matching between the switch resistances is critical, common-centroid layout techniques are utilized. These switches set the bridge configuration used for measurements. The Wheatstone bridge network has three input terminals connected to the corners of the bridge. The differential output voltage is sampled between Signal 2 and Signal 3 by the subsequent flying capacitor network. The configuration of the bridge is set by controlling the switches SW1 and SW2.

In the quarter-bridge and half-bridge configurations, both switches SW1 and SW2 are closed. As depicted in Figure 2 , the quarter-bridge configuration has an active external sensor connected between Signal 1 and Signal 3 as the upper left element of the bridge. The on-chip resistor network provides the bottom two resistor elements and the upper right element. With this setup, temperature variations and lead resistance reduce the accuracy of the sensor measurements.

Using a dummy sensor in a half-bridge configuration mitigates these effects. Single element and lead compensated sensors may be used in this configuration [ 8 ].

In the half-bridge configuration Figure 3 , two active external sensors are connected between Signal 2 and Signal 3 to provide the upper half of the bridge, while the bottom half of the bridge is provided by the on-chip resistors.

This configuration provides better sensitivity along with inherent temperature and lead compensation [ 8 ]. By setting both switches SW1 and SW2 to open, the on-chip resistors are not used. Four active external sensors are connected between Signal 2 and Signal 3 as a full bridge to provide a signal to the flying capacitor network Figure 4. This configuration is known as a full-bridge configuration. This means that the sensor has a full-bridge inside it.

As shown in Figure 1 , an on-chip stimulus current positive stimulus is applied to the top of the bridge. The stimulus functions as an adjustable current source that sets the common-mode voltage of the bridge. This current source is driven by a high-voltage current mirror that allows for stimulus voltages higher than those supported by the 3.

A current output digital-to-analog converter DAC is utilized to supply the stimulus input current to this current mirror. Figure 5 provides the pin-out of the control register. When a channel is integrated with other active channels in an application, the shift register is included in a scan path for test mode.

Shift registers are also employed to program the stimulus and calibration data during testing and setup. These serial shift registers load the corresponding DACs. All of the shift registers contain multiplexers on each output bit. When the data is fully loaded, Output Enable is set high. This allows the rest of the analog processing and data conversion to occur at low voltages. A simplified schematic is illustrated in Figure 6. Once mirrored into the output branches, the differential signal is converted to a voltage by diodes M 1 3 and M 1 4 , where it is read by standard low-voltage CMOS analog processing circuitry.

The pMOS transistors forming the high-side current sources are protected from breakdown by high-voltage N-wells as described by Najafizadeh et al. The low-voltage current source is formed by LDMOS transistors available in-process, also as described by Najafizadeh et al. The flying capacitor network [ 10 — 12 ] used for sampling the analog input is implemented as shown in Figure 7. This circuit incorporates calibration and charge cancellation schemes in order to eliminate pedestal effects from parasitic capacitors and charge injection from the control switches.

The array of feedback capacitors used for the op amp provides programmable gain see Figure 8. As discussed earlier, the switches are set by the shift register illustrated in Figure 5. The general purpose op amp [ 13 ] provides the channel gain and is also employed as a level shifter to match the input range of the ADC. The schematic of the op amp is depicted in Figure 9. The amplifier senses input voltages near the lower supply and also provides rail-to-rail output voltage swing.

The output stage is based on the topology presented in [ 14 ] and provides good drive capability while using relatively small transistors. Preliminary proton radiation testing induced negligible variation in its performance [ 15 ].

The switches control the different modes of operation of the flying capacitor network. Figure 10 provides the control signals that coordinate the switching. All switches employ transmission gates to reduce charge injection and eliminate threshold voltage effects on logic levels inherent to nMOS-only or pMOS-only gates.

The cross-coupling of the sampling capacitors aids in cancellation of charge from parasitic capacitance. Calibration is followed by a calibration-hold stage Figure This phase incorporates a prehold phase for charge cancellation. Figure 7 illustrates this phase. Thus, the flying capacitor circuit performs analog sampling and also incorporates offset and parasitic charge cancellation. This improves the signal integrity by minimizing crosstalk, substrate noise injection, and IR drop from long routes.

It also reduces the required number of external pins. The 6-phase clock generator circuit halves the input clock frequency and employs it as an additional phase reference to generate the required control signals. Current-starved inverter delay cells [ 16 ] are used to provide the required delays for the non-overlapping clock phases. In order to match the output range of the flying capacitor stage with the input range of the ADC, an op amp-based level shifter is employed.

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BiCMOS Technology: Fabrication and Applications

PDF , 3. Using an op amp to amplify the current-sense signal can reduce cost and improve noise performance and efficiency. This report reviews the advantages of using an op amp circuit and analyzes the design criteria needed to choose the proper op amp. The popular UC control-circuit architecture has been recently improved to deliver even higher levels of protection and perfor. It covers practical circuit design considerations such as slope compensation gate drive circuitry external control functions synchronization and paralleling current-mode controlled modules. Circuit diagrams and simplified equations are included. The application performs three functions: control, switching, and output rectification. A circuit schematic and a list of materials are included.

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US4948990A - BiCMOS inverter circuit - Google Patents

Year of fee payment : 4. Effective date : A threshold control BiCMOS TTL input buffer is disclosed which substantially eliminates input trip point variation across power supply, process, and temperature and additionally minimizes buffer power dissipation. This application is a continuation of application Ser. The asynchronous operation CMOS TTL complementary metal oxide semiconductor transistor-transistor logic input buffer has two major obstacles that have been taunting IC integrated circuit designers for years. The first obstacle is the variation of input trip point the point beyond which an output responds to a change in an input across power supply, process and temperature.

BiCMOS Devices

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BICMOS Inverter Circuit Diagram

Three stage low power transimpedance amplifier. C F must be added to make the circuit stable. The transimpedance amplifier is developed for photomultiplier tube with high switchable gain and low read out noise.

A SiGe BiCMOS Instrumentation Channel for Extreme Environment Applications

Effective date : Year of fee payment : 4. A BiCMOS inverter circuit having complementary MOS transistors and complementary bipolar transistors enables a high speed inverting operation as well as high degree of integration when it is fabricated on a semiconductor chip. The inverter circuit may further include another complementary MOS transistors to allow the logic output to be advantageously full switched in the range of V cc -0 V keeping the high speed operation.

Datasheet Texas Instruments UCC2805-W — Даташит

With the dramatic increase in the number of transistors on a chip and the increasing needs for battery-powered applications, low-voltage circuit design techniques have been widely studied in recent year. However, these low supply voltage research efforts have been focused mainly on digital circuits, especially on high density memory circuits. Reported success in achieved high performance low voltage operation in analog circuits lags far behind. Recent results have been presented on CMOS low-voltage operational amplifiers, where the supply voltage has been reduced to less than 2. Recently, the floating gate MOS transistor has attracted considerable interest as a nonvolatile analog storage device and as a precision analog trim element because it has threshold voltage programming ability [YU93] [RC95]. As a proof-of-concept vehicle, this work concentrates on the design of very low voltage operational amplifiers in standard CMOS processes. By connecting a DC reference voltage source in series with the gate of all MOS transistors, the equivalent threshold voltage of all transistors can be electrically lowered.

Transimpedance amplifier photodiode receiver circuit

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