Design of Fully Balanced Analog Systems Based on Ordinary and/or Modified Single-Ended Opamps

Zdzis taw CZARNUL  Tetsuro ITAKURA  Noriaki DOBASHI  Takashi UENO  Tetsuya IIDA  Hiroshi TANIMOTO  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E82-A   No.2   pp.256-270
Publication Date: 1999/02/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: INVITED PAPER (Special Section on Analog Circuit Techniques and Related Topics)
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Keyword: 
fully balanced system,  analog circuits,  integrated circuit,  filter,  integrator,  amplifier,  

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Summary: 
The system architectures, which allow a high performance fully balanced (FB) system based on ordinary/modified single-ended opamps to be implemented, are investigated and the basic and general requirements are formulated. Two new methods of an FB analog system design, which contribute towards achieving both a high performance IC system implementation and a great reduction of the design time are presented. It is shown that a single-ended system based on any type of opamp (rail-to-rail, constant gm, etc. ), realized in any technology (CMOS, bipolar, BiCMOS, GaAs), can be easily and effectively converted to its FB counterpart in a very practical way. Using the proposed rules, any FB system implementation with opamps (data converter, modulator, filter, etc. ) requires only a single-ended system version design and the drawbacks related to a conventional FB system design are avoided. The principles of the design are pointed out and they are verified by experimental results.