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Design of an Inverter-Base, Active-Feedback, Low-Power Transimpedance Amplifier Operating at 10 Gbps

Sima Honarmand

Department of Electrical Engineering, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran

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Majid Pourahmadi

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8839-0511

Department of Electrical Engineering, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran

E-mail Address: Pourahmadi@iauyazd.ac.ir

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Mohammad Reza Shayesteh

Department of Electrical Engineering, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran

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Kavoos Abbasi

Department of Physics, College of Science, Yasouj University, Yasouj, Iran

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218126621501103Cited by:3 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

In this paper, a low-power structure as an inverter-base circuit is reported for broadband applications. The focus in this study is in obtaining a low-power structure. By applying cascoded structure to an inverter as a feedforward network in the structure, the DC current and hence the power dissipation are decreased. Also, by adding a two-stage active feedback, which yields no miller capacitance, to the cascoded inverter, the structure of the TIA is completed. Simulation results in HSPICE using 90nm CMOS technology parameters show 41dB $Ω$ $Ω$ transimpedance gain, 6.5GHz frequency bandwidth and 2.7 $μ$ $μ$ Arms input referred noise, which consumes only 1.67mw power at 1V supply. Results and analysis indicate that the proposed TIA is suitable to work as a low-power 10 Gbps transimpedance amplifier in an optical receiver.

This paper was recommended by Regional Editor Piero Malcovati.

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