How to design Folded Cascode OTA with gain-boosting?

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I will really appreciate it, if you could give me advice about

1.how to determine its amount of current flowing through each transistor,
2. effective voltages(Vdsat, Vov, or Veff) and bias voltages(Vb1, Vb2, Vb3, Vcm)
3. its small signal gain.


Thanks

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The specification is below:
TSMC 0.18 micron technology
DC gain:60dB
Gain bandwidth product:500MHz
Phase Margin: 60
Output swing: 1v P-P
Output Load: 2pF
Slew rate: 20v/usec
fully differential..
 

u may find it in this paper
try it
 

Hi..
You can check Razavi for a brief view. The current could be fixed depending on the power constraints,slew rate constraints and the next block you are giving this output to(pushing equal current densities might be helpful if you want to maintain a vgs,for example).
Also the current in m1,m2 must be around 1.5 times that of the current in the diff pair,in order that the current through the cascode legs will not fall to 0 or a low value.
You can assume a similar vdsat for the cascodes and design taking care of the i/p o/p swings,and if there are any discrepancies you can adjust those values. Generally this architecture is used when there is a high vdd,say 3.3v. So,you won't have much of that problem unless otherwise,you need a relatively large swing.
 

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