Bandwidth and Slew Rate Enhanced OTA With Sustainable Dynamic Bias

A bandwidth and slew rate (SR) enhanced operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) with proposed sustainable dynamic bias, transient detector and passive on-chip high-pass filter is presented in this brief. The proposed design is able to detect large-signal applied to the input of the amplifier and dynamically adjust its bias current to enhance both unity-gain bandwidth (UGB) and SR at the same time to achieve fast-settling behavior without overshoot and undershoot, along with high immunity against variations of supply voltage and bias current. Fabricated with a commercial 130-nm CMOS technology, the proposed design is verified by measurements that it is able to increase its SR by over 15 times, with more than 7.5 times reduction in its power consumption to attain fast settling time compared with a conventional design. Design considerations and an architectural comparison of the proposed design with another design with a different approach are also included in this brief to verify its performance and viability.