130 nm CMOS Fully Differential SC Filter for Ultra-Low Voltage ∑-Δ Converter

Abstract

In this paper design and function of the fully differential (FD) switched-capacitor (SC) integrator for ultra-low voltage Sigma-Delta analog to digital converter (∑-Δ ADC) are presented. The proposed integrator was designed for differential input signal and applicable as a main analog block of ultra-low voltage ∑-Δ ADC in standard 130 nm CMOS technology. The main block of proposed integrator is operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) based on two-stage Rail-to-Rail (RtR) FD operational amplifier (OPAMP) working in sub-threshold regime. The characteristic properties of this circuit is non-standard OTA topology, using SC common-mode feedback (CMFB) circuit and using switching T-gates. All of these subcircuits are supplied by only 0.6 V with achieved gain 24.09 dB and cutoff frequency 165.95 kHz.