Low Common-Mode Gain Instrumentation Amplifier Architecture Insensitive to Resistor Mismatches

Zainul Abidin, Koichi Tanno, Shota Mago, Hiroki Tamura

Abstract


In this paper, an instrumentation amplifier architecture for biological
signal is proposed. First stage of conventional IA architecture was modified
by using fully balanced differential difference amplifier and evaluated by
using 1P 2M 0.6μm CMOS process. From HSPICE simulation result, lower
common-mode voltage can be achieved by proposed IA architecture.
Actual fabrication was done and six chips were evaluated. From the evaluation result, average common-mode gain of proposed IA architecture
is 10.84 dB lower than that of conventional one without requiring
well-matched resistors. Therefore, the proposed IA architecture
is suitable for biological signal processing.


Keywords


instrumentation amplifier; differential difference amplifier; resistor mismatches; common-mode voltage; biological signal

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DOI: http://doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v6i6.pp3247-3254

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