HIGH-BANDWIDTH BUFFER AMPLIFIER FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY APPLICATIONS

In this paper, a novel high-bandwidth and low-power buffer amplifier is presented for the liquid crystal display applications. This buffer amplifier consists of a folded cascade differential amplifier in the input and a class-AB amplifier in the output, which are designed carefully. The proposed buffer amplifier utilizes a high-performance feedback circuit to increase the bandwidth. It also utilizes a comparator circuit to avoid wasting power. The designed circuit has been simulated in 180nm technology using HSPICE 2008.3. The simulation results show that the bandwidth, power consumption and power supply of the designed circuit are 1.14MHz, 1.64mW and 1.8V, respectively

High-Linearity Self-Biased CMOS Current Buffer

A highly linear fully self-biased class AB current buffer designed in a standard 0.18 mu m CMOS process with 1.8 V power supply is presented in this paper. It is a simple structure that, with a static power consumption of 48 mu W, features an input resistance as low as 89 Omega, high accuracy in the input-output current ratio and total harmonic distortion (THD) figures lower than -60 dB at 30 mu A amplitude signal and 1 kHz frequency. Robustness was proved through Monte Carlo and corner simulations, and finally validated through experimental measurements, showing that the proposed configuration is a suitable choice for high performance low voltage low power applications