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High-Value Tunable Pseudo-Resistors Design

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Guglielmi, Emanuele, Toso, Fabio, Zanetto, Francesco, Sciortino, Giuseppe, Mesri, Alireza, Sampietro, Marco, Ferrari, Giorgio·2020·IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Abstract

Pseudo-resistor circuits are used to mimic large value resistors and base their success on the reduction of occupied areas with respect to physical devices of equal value. This article presents an optimized architecture of pseudo-resistor, made in standard CMOS 0.35 μm technology to bias a low-noise transimpedance amplifier for high-sensitivity applications in the frequency range 100 kHz-10 MHz. The architecture was selected after a critical review of the different topologies to implement high-value resistances with MOSFET transistors, considering their performance in terms of linearity of response, symmetric dynamic range, frequency behavior, and simplicity of realization. The resulting circuit consumes an area of 0.017 mm2and features a tunable resistance from 20 MΩ to 20 GΩ, dynamic offset reduction due to a more than linear I-V curve, and a high-frequency noise well below the one of a physical resistor of equal value. This latter aspect highlights the larger perspective of pseudo-resistors as building blocks in very low-noise applications in addition to the advantage in occupied areas they provide.

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Authors
Guglielmi, E., Toso, F., Zanetto, F., Sciortino, G., Mesri, A., Sampietro, M., & Ferrari, G.
Affiliations
Politecnico di Milano (IT)
Venue
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Published
2020-08
Volume
55
Issue
8
Pages
2094-2105
ISSN
  • 0018-9200 (ISSN-L)
  • 1558-173X
OpenAlex
W3008212765
Cited by
114
References
31
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 20 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 3 · 2012: 1
FWCI
4.33
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (publishedVersion)
  • Virtual Community of Pathological Anatomy (University of Castilla La Mancha) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
  • EU projects ICT-STREAMS (688172)
  • TRAINING4CRM (H2020, 722779)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuit Design
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Low-power high-performance VLSI design
Keywords
pseudo-resistor, high-value resistors, transimpedance amplifier, low-noise circuits, CMOS circuit design

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