A simulation study of high-order CMOS hyperbolic-sine filters

作者：Kardoulaki Evdokia M^*; Glaros Konstantinos N; Katsiamis Andreas G; Ip Henry Man D; Drakakis Emmanuel M

来源：International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications, 2014, 42(10): 1033-1050.

DOI：10.1002/cta.1903

• ELIN companding filters
• hyperbolic-sine (sinh) filters
• Log domain pseudo-differential class-AB filters
• continuous-time weak-inversion filters

This paper advances the field of externally linear-internally nonlinear (ELIN) filters by introducing a synthesis method that enables the design of high-order class-AB sinh filters by means of complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) weak-inversion sinh integrators comprising only one type of devices in their translinear loops. The proposed transistor-level synthesis approach is demonstrated through the examples of (1) a biquadratic and (2) a fifth-order filter, and their simulated performance is studied. The biquadratic filter achieves a dynamic range of 94 dB and has a tunable quality factor Q up to the value of 8, whereas its natural frequency can be tuned for four orders of magnitude. Its static power consumption amounts to 6.2 mu W for Q=1 and f(o)=2kHz. The fifth-order Chebyshev sinh CMOS filter with a cut-off frequency of 100 Hz, a pass band ripple of 1 dB, and a power consumption of similar to 300 nW is compared head-to-head with its pseudo-differential class-AB CMOS log domain counterpart. The sinh filter achieves similar or better signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and signal-to-noise-plus-distortion ratio (SNDR) performances with half the capacitor area but at the expense of higher power consumption from the same power supply level. All three presented filter topologies are novel. Cadence design framework simulations have been performed using the commercially available 0.35 mu m AMS (austriamicrosystems) process parameters.

• 出版日期2014-10