Low voltage, low power transconductor for low frequency Gm-C filters

Abstract

A low voltage, low power bulk-driven transconductor for low frequency Transconductance-C (Gm - C) filters filters is proposed. The transconductor is designed in UMC 180nm technology with supply voltage of 0.5V. The transconductance (Gm) is tunable from 12nS to 100nS, which is suitable for low frequency Gm - C filters. The power consumption is 120 nW. As an application, a 2nd order Butterworth low pass filter (LPF) with cutoff frequency tunable from 110Hz to 960Hz is designed. � Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2017.