Rail-to-Rail V-I Conversion Using a Pair of Single Channel MOSFETs Operating in Plural Regions

Takahide SATO  Shigetaka TAKAGI  Nobuo FUJII  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E86-A   No.2   pp.327-334
Publication Date: 2003/02/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Analog Circuit Techniques and Related Topics)
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Keyword: 
rail-to-rail operation,  V-I converter,  OTA,  

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Summary: 
A novel linear voltage-to-current conversion circuit for a rail-to-rail input voltage is proposed in this paper. A pair of MOSFETs operating in plural regions are used for the conversion and a difference of their drain currents is used as an output current. The two MOSFETs work complemetarily and realize a rail-to-rail input range. The output current is linear in any input voltage from the ground potential to a power-supply voltage. Two types of circuit configurations which realize the proposed concept are given. From the viewpoint of area efficiency and linearity the proposed circuit is superior to a voltage-to-current converter previously proposed by the authors, which uses a set of three MOSFETs to achieve a rail-to-rail voltage-to-current conversion . The operation principle of the proposed method is confirmed through HSPICE simulations.