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Title: Differences between those two types of OTA's Post by AMSA on Sep 11th, 2014, 7:58am Hi guys, I want to design an OPAMP to drive a fast comparator. Actually the OPAMP that I want to design is to do a error amplifier. I was searching for some topologies inside the OTA's topologies and I though that a good choice would be the two-stage miller OTA or the Symmetrical OTA (load compensated ota). I don't have any specs restriction but I think that the most important parameters for the error amplifier would be high DC gain, nice PSRR, good slew rate and big bandwidth. From what I read I think that the Symmetrical OTA has less gain when compared to the two stage miller OTA. However, the Symmetrical can be folded cascode, but I don't know what implication it will have. Can someone help me here with the pros and cons? Which one would be best suitable? Kind regards. |
Title: Re: Differences between those two types of OTA's Post by raja.cedt on Sep 11th, 2014, 10:37am Two stage op-amp: Potentially higher gain at the cost of compensation and rail to rail o/p capability. Symmetric OTA: Less gain and single pole system and rail to rail capability. Basically you will have to fix your gain and application. In 2 stage opamp also you can use folded cascade. Implication are function of many variables. We can't explain or guess until you fix an application or final circuit. |
Title: Re: Differences between those two types of OTA's Post by AMSA on Sep 11th, 2014, 11:02am Hi raja, thank you so much for your reply. The application of this OP AMP will be to operate on a feedback system on a dc-dc converter. It will have to amplify the error difference at the input (there is a reference and an input signal that comes from the converter output). At same time it will have a feedback to compensate for the phase and gain margin. I managed to design a symmetric ota where the gain I obtained was around 40dB with a current consumption around 680uA. I don't know if this consumption vs gain is a good indicator, that is, for that gain I have a good current consumption. I don't know if I can get more gain from this amplifier, maybe at the cost of more current consumption. Another possibility is using cascode at the output. I think it would increase significantly the gain but I don't know what I would lose, maybe less voltage swing at the output - but I don't know if the voltage swing at the output is very important for this application. Kind regards. |
Title: Re: Differences between those two types of OTA's Post by SNIKE on Sep 11th, 2014, 2:31pm Gain doesn't depend on power consumption. [grain of salt notice]. Your unity gain bandwidth depends on power consumption. How much gain do you require? What speed do you want this amplifier to operate? What is the load this amplifier is driving? Is it resistive load, capacitive load or active load? You have to figure out if your application requires large output swing. "I want to design an OPAMP to drive a fast comparator. " If that's the case check the Input common mode range and gain of comparator. This will answer the question if you really require large output swing. |
Title: Re: Differences between those two types of OTA's Post by loose-electron on Sep 11th, 2014, 6:55pm everybody seems to be forgetting the important one: Offset Need I say more? A high gain amplifier into a comparator is useless if the offset is huge. |
Title: Re: Differences between those two types of OTA's Post by RobG on Sep 12th, 2014, 9:13am The main reasons to build a two stage (e.g. Miller) are to drive a load and to get a larger swing. The down side is that the maximum bandwidth is reduced and compensation is more complicated. A folded cascode followed by a second stage with Ahuja compensation is my go-to topology. Sorry I can't find a picture without too much effort but that is what I would start with. |
Title: Re: Differences between those two types of OTA's Post by loose-electron on Sep 12th, 2014, 1:09pm ok so a comparator to a saw tooth wave - sounds like a duty cycle controller for a power converter or something similar. Offset may not be an issue there, because the offset in some situations just shows up as a time shift. |
Title: Re: Differences between those two types of OTA's Post by AMSA on Sep 12th, 2014, 1:14pm Yes, it is to control a duty-cycle. |
Title: Re: Differences between those two types of OTA's Post by AMSA on Sep 12th, 2014, 2:25pm Anyone for the ICRM? |
Title: Re: Differences between those two types of OTA's Post by SNIKE on Sep 12th, 2014, 2:57pm HI AMSA, Gain doesn't depend on power consumption. Let me give you an example. If you bias your diff pair with just 1uA but have a cascoded output [like telescopic] you can easily acheive 60dB of gain. I have many OTA's in silicon having gains > 80dB with less than 10uA bias. But the bandwidth is going to be terrible. [ Bandwidth is gm/cl]. I think you need to find required speed of operation [ the error you can tolerate because of comparator delay]. |
Title: Re: Differences between those two types of OTA's Post by AMSA on Sep 12th, 2014, 3:26pm What you mean by the required speed of operation? Regarding the consumption, it make sense what you said, however for typical opamps applications I think that what I said is valid. Can you help me out with the ICMR? Right now my symmetrical ota has 50dB of gain, 600uA of current consumption, GBW around 190MHz and a phase margin of 50º measured with STB in spectre and AC Analysis. Right now I would like to make some charaterization on him but I don't have much knowledge on the required test benchs. I have a report from a university where the author has some test benchs for each of the charaterization however I am not sure if I am doing correctly the configurations. For examplem the case of the ICMR. I tried the OFFSET, connecting both input to ground but I don't know where to read the offset. If it is on the output, it has around 1V, but it seems to me that 1V is the VDS of the nmos transistor connected between the mid point on the output and ground. Regards |
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