T. Inoue et al., DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF OTA SWITCHED-CURRENT MIRRORS, IEICE transactions on fundamentals of electronics, communications and computer science, E76A(6), 1993, pp. 940-946
Switched-current (SI) is a current-mode analog sampled-data signal pro
cessing technique realizable in standard digital CMOS technologies. In
this paper, new switched-current (SI) mirrors using OTAs (operational
transconductance amplifiers) are proposed. These circuits are less se
nsitive to clock-feedthrough noise than conventional SI mirrors by vir
tue of linear I-V/V-I transformations. In addition, the current gain o
f the proposed mirror is electronically tunable. Not only inverting mi
rrors but also noninverting mirrors can be realized by this method.