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VADIM IVANOV
Burr-Brown Corp., Tucson, AZ
Abstract. General approach to the design of the class AB output stages of bipolar and CMOS ampli®ers based on
common-mode negative feedback is discussed. Frequency compensation of the result multiloop system is provided
by feed forward links. Effectiveness of the proposed method is shown on designs of rail-to-rail bipolar and CMOS
output stages, all-NPN output stage, output stage of the hearing aids IC. Common design mistakes are shown using
industry-standard ICs.
Key Words: operational ampli®er, class AB, frequency compensation, minimum selector
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Fig. 2. Topologies of output stage. Fig. 4. General signal graph of the output stage.
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Fig. 16. Bipolar rail-to-rail output stage. Fig. 18. All-NPN class AB stage.
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7. Conclusion
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ampli®ers.'' In: Analog integrated circuits and signal proces- From 1980 till 1991 he was design engineer and
sing. 8, pp. 49±6, Kluwer, Boston MA. researcher in ``Electropribor'' Research Institute, St.
14. K. de Langen et al., ``A 1-GHz bipolar class AB operational
ampli®er with multipath nested Miller compensation for 76 dB Petersburg, Russia, working on analog electronics and
gain.'' IEEE J. of Solid-State Circuits 32, (4), 1997. ASICs in power, sensor and RF areas with OES
Electronics, St. Petersburg, Russia. From 1991 to
1995 he designed various ASICs in power, sensor and
RF areas with OES Electronics, St. Petersburg, Russia.
In 1996 he joined Burr-Brown Corp., Tucson, AZ, as a
design engineer.
He has co-authored two books on analog IC design
and holds 3 U.S. and more than 40 USSR author
certi®cates and Russian patents on inventions in
analog circuit techniques. His interests include
utilization of the control theory methods for the
analog IC design.
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