Several new CMOS very high DC-gain amplifiers that use internal positive-feedback techniques are presented. These amplifiers have a controllable gain and don't require perfect matching of transistors to achieve the high DC gain. An implementation of a sample and hold circuit constructed using one of the proposed amplifiers is described. Sin~ulation results predict a DC gain larger than lOOdB is possible without limiting the speed of the amplifier.
CMOS continuous-time and switched-capacitor filters which operate at high frequencies with high Quality factor Q are difficult to realize. The finite gain and the finite bandwidth of the integrator amplifiers are the main limitation. This paper describes two techniques to simultaneously increase bandwidth, transconductance, and DC-gain of an amplifier without changing the excess bias or the power dissipation. Implementations of a continuous-time band-pass filter to demonstrate the high frequency capabilities of the proposed architectures are described.
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