Design and analysis of an ultra low-voltage CMOS class-AB V-I converter for dynamic range enhancement

This paper presents the design technique and comprehensive analysis of an ultra low voltage V-I converter. Under the requirement of high frequency and low voltage applications, internal linear small signal processing is applied to achieve the ultra low voltage operation with large input signal swing. A local feedback loop is introduced to optimize the design. In a 1.2 /spl mu/m n-well CMOS experimental result, the proposed CMOS V-I converter has a /spl plusmn/0.25 V highly linear differential-input swing with 1.2 V supply voltage and achieves an almost rail-to-rail differential-input swing with at least 1.5 V supply-voltage. This V-I converter has 1.2% THD of fully-rail swing (/spl plusmn/1.5 V) with low power consumption. Dynamic input range is 80 dB with 1% THD output signal.