A Rail-to-Rail CMOS Voltage Follower under Low Power Supply Voltage

Kawori TAKAKUBO  Hajime TAKAKUBO  Shigetaka TAKAGI  Nobuo FUJII  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E84-A   No.2   pp.537-544
Publication Date: 2001/02/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Analog Circuit Techniques Supporting the System LSI Era)
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Keyword: 
CMOS voltage follower,  AB push-pull,  rail-to-rail operation,  low power supply,  

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Summary: 
Voltage follower is one of the most useful building blocks in analog circuits. This paper proposes a voltage follower composed of a complementary pair of p-channel MOS(PMOS) and n-channel MOS (NMOS) differential amplifiers which operates under low power supply. The proposed circuit has a rail-to-rail dynamic range by combining complementary differential amplifiers.