A 0.9 V, High-Speed, Low-Power Tunable Gain Current Mirror

A high-speed current mirror with low-power method of adjusting current gain is presented. The current mirror provides continuous gain adjustment; yet, its gain can simply be programmed digitally, as well. The structure features the ever interesting merits of linear-in-dB gain control scheme and low power/voltage operation. The performance of proposed structure is verified through the simulation in TSMC 0.18 µm CMOS Technology. The proposed tunable gain current mirror structure draws only 18 µW from 0.9 V power supply and can operate at high frequencies up to 550 MHz in the worst case condition of maximum gain setting.

Authors:

• Hassan Faraji Baghtash

Keywords:

• Current mirror
• current mode
• low power
• low voltage
• tunable circuit
• variable current amplifier.

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