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SC CMFB Design
Jan 01st, 2004, 7:33am
 
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You must define the minimum equivalent resistance your amplifier can drive, this gives the upper limit to the capacitance value - clock frequency product. The lower limit of this product is given by loss of accuracy due to leakage currents and other practical issues.

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Hi, I create a new thread to accomodate any questions regarding the SC CMFB design.

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Reply #1 - Jan 1st, 2004, 7:38am
 
Well Paul,

What I mean is as following.

when i only simulate the SC CMFB, the voltage produced is as expected. however, when i combined the full diff opamp and the cmfb, the cmfb cannot work properly. in the end, the opamp cannot work.

i use spectre RF (the pss and pac analysis).

when i use trans analysis from Mentor graphic, the correct dc point of the opamp can be obtained.

is there something wrong with the Spectre RF? or any design rule for SC CMFB?
thx.
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Reply #2 - Jan 1st, 2004, 10:34am
 
Rather than speculate, perhaps you can send me both netlists. Be sure to include the full executable netlists (models, analyses, etc.)

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Reply #3 - Jan 4th, 2004, 12:10am
 
I was able to run a simulation with Spectre from the netlist you sent and did not find anything that would suggest a problem. However, as you did not send a simulatable netlist (there were no analyses, options, etc.), I cannot really know what simulations you ran, or which outputs you observed. Nor have you really described what problems occur (you only say that the simulations cannot work).

If you would like more help, I recommend that you construct a netlist that demonstrates the problem (be sure to test it to assure it both runs and exhibits the problem) and send that to me. Be sure to include a description of the circuit (inputs and outputs, function, etc) and the problem.

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Re: SC CMFB Design
Reply #4 - Jan 5th, 2004, 12:03am
 
Hi The_one,

There's no reason for Eldo and Spectre to give different simulation results. I'm sure the problem is not in the Spectre simulator, but in different simulation conditions between both simulators. As Ken mentions, you should provide more information on the kind of problems you see.

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