Hello everyone,
I have a question about CMOS OpAmp design. One of my Msc courses requires a project which involves design of a rail to tail OpAmp. This project should be realized both schematically and in layout. I looked for a design guide from Analog Devices, yet I couldn't find any. Is there anybody who can suggest me a good guideline to design an OpAmp?
Thanks
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Hello,
You can our Educational platform: https://wiki.analog.com/university/courses/electronics/labs
Particularly, these topics:
Electronics I:
Making a full Amplifier from circuit blocks
Regards,
- Antoniu
CMOS amplifiers with rail-to-rail output stages look more like this example:
https://wiki.analog.com/university/courses/alm1k/alm-lab-ota
This is what is called an operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) which has a high output impedance current source based output rather than a low impedance source follower style output stage. A current source can swing much closer to to the rail than the Vgs of a follower.
Doug