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    Compensation of LDO across corners

    Hello, I am trying to compensate an LDO across all corners. My boss suggested me that I need to find a correct value for R3 and C3. The picture below is the block diagram of the LDO. My questions: 1. is there a way to find a correct value of R3 and C3 other than trial and error? so far, there...
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    LDO with PMOS pass transistor fails at SF corner

    Hello, I am designing an LDO whose block diagram looks like the picture below. The error amplifier is 5 transistor OTA with NMOS diff pair. All the internal circuits are powered by the output voltage of this LDO, i.e., self powered, V4A and V4B are connected. At SFF and SFS corners at Temp >...
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    Current-starved Inverter as delay element.

    I understand what you mean. Thanks. I agree, some precision requirement is needed. Thanks for the insights. My supervisor suggested to use similar circuit but the control only come from either PMOS or NMOS, but not both, while the other side is connected with diode-connected MOS. If I did it...
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    Current-starved Inverter as delay element.

    Hello, My supervisor suggested me not to use the delay circuit shown below. The reason is we cannot guarantee if ID of PMOS and NMOS to be the same. While I completely agree with this statement, I still do not understand the relevant of it to the functionality of the circuit. Even if the...
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    Voltage-Controlled Delay in VerilogA using absdelay()

    I want to model Voltage-Controlled Delay in VerilogA using absdelay(target_waveform, delay_control). But somehow only the first value of delay_control that is used. In other words, the delay is there but with fixed value. Did I miss anything? // VerilogA for Regulator...
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    linearity of a curve

    Thanks guys for your reply. And how can I define the range of the linearity? Is there any more practical way that can be done in Cadence? It is actually a current source injecting current to a capacitor which is suspected to be nonlinear. I need to check the linearity of VOUT. Let me know if...
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    linearity of a curve

    Hello, I need to find the range where the curve (red) is still considered linear. For this I ploted the first (yellow) and second (green) derivative. I also marked when the second derivative drops 60% (arbitrarily chosen) from its peak. But I am not sure, whether this is a fair way to define the...
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    Output resistance of current mirror - Simulation Setup

    Ooops..honest mistake. I am not trolling and was not aware that the output impedance was multiplied. I know regulated cascode for TIA and didnt thought it is the same case here. I will derive the small signal analysis tomorrow. Thank you!
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    Output resistance of current mirror - Simulation Setup

    Confirmed that gds = 1/rout. The ideal opamp is from VerilogA.
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    Output resistance of current mirror - Simulation Setup

    Still, they are different. This setup seems make sense, but I do not understand where I did the mistake.
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    Output resistance of current mirror - Simulation Setup

    The bulk is connected to -1.2V, that is not a mistake. Here is the simulation when VBS of cascode transistor = 0V and VB of bottom transistor = 0V. Still the results are not the same.
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    Output resistance of current mirror - Simulation Setup

    Here is the simulation result when both transistors are in saturation. Still I got different results.
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    Output resistance of current mirror - Simulation Setup

    I usually use small signal formula to calculate output resistance (method 1). But now want to find a simulation setup to measure it (method 2) so I do not need to input the expression of rout. A good discussion I found from here and here. I still do net get the same result between method 1 and...
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    Noise simulation on CSA-Comparator pair using PSS+PNoise

    I am simulating a CSA-Comp pair like in the picture below (Picture 1) and would like to use PSS and PNoise analyses to find the input-referred noise charge or equivalent noise charge (ENC). But I got no noise result in the data browser and warning message "WARNING (SPCRTRF-15495): No crossing...
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    Circuit Performance Exploration

    Thank you for the explanation! I got the idea. Do you think this can be done with Cadence?

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