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May 14th, 2007, 7:21am
 
as full-differential n-input fold-cascade amplifier in the picture, we can add the cmfb in the a, b or c point, what is the difference of the three method? which one is better
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Reply #1 - May 18th, 2007, 3:21pm
 
Hi,

The main differences among these three approaches, I think, are different gain and phase margin for the CMFB loop. For example the loop gain for (a) and (c) is almost the same (assuming that the current in Ma is two times Mc), however, there is one more non-dominant pole in (a). In case (c), the gain is less and so it is simpler to make the loop stable...


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Reply #2 - May 21st, 2007, 11:28am
 
Hm, as with a lot of things in this world there are multiple ways to do the same thing.

That said, getting everything at proper common mode operating point early in a multiple stage system is generally considered good practice.

That said, location C, is somewhat downstream.

The most common place to add this would be location B. This does not disturb your common mode current below the ddifferential pair and will change the gain of the stage slightly (you are changing the impedance of the diff pair load a bit with control added at node B, but that should be slight) and location A tends to be controlled by a common current bias system.

In analysis all would work, in practice I would tend to use B, develop a multiple use location bias system to control A (all the differential pairs in a system) and would avoid C just due to the fact that you want to introduce CMFB early in the system.
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Reply #3 - May 23rd, 2007, 5:56am
 
but somebody say the cmfb in point a and b will affect input transistor pair'gm a little.
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