Design of Low-Temperature and Radiation-Hardened JFET Direct Coupled Op-Amps without Current Mirrors

Autor: Nikolay N. Prokopenko, Anna V. Bugakova, Alexey E. Titov
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: ECCTD
Popis: The offset voltage (V off ) of the BJT and CMOS two-stage operational amplifiers (Op-Amps) substantially depends on the numerical values (differences from unit) from the current ratio (K i ≈1) of the current mirrors (CM). The CM parameter is also influenced by the Early voltage of their dominant active components. For the JFET technologies (Si, SiC, GaAs and others) with a low noise level, there are no high-quality CMs of this class today, or their construction (at K i =1) is associated with a significant deterioration of other parameters of the Op-Amp. Nowadays, the current JFET mirrors are the weakest link in modern JFET analog circuitry and it is impractical to use them in the structure of the JFET Op-Amps. For the first time the article poses and solves the problem of determining the conditions for exclusion of the CMs in the JFET Op-Amp for the case when it is necessary to obtain a small V off . It is shown that for this, three identical reference current sources should be used, which are implemented on the JFET transistors and the local negative feedback resistors. The V off of the Op-Amps with the classical and proposed architectures are compared. The computer simulation results of the offset voltage (V off ) in the LTspice environment are presented, which show that silicon JFet direct coupled Op-Amps without CM have a systematic component of V off at the level of tens to hundreds of microvolts and voltage gain of more than 80 dB in a wide temperature range.
Databáze: OpenAIRE