Lecture 2

Current Mirror(1)

Simple Current Mirror

Application of Current Mirror

Cascode Current Mirror

Application of a Cascode Current Mirror

A Wide Swing Current Mirror

[Sedra/Smith: page 1001]

Generation of 2 Vov+Vt

[Sedra/Smith: page 1001]

Improved Cascode Mirror

[Gray and Meyer, 4th Edition, p.269]

Force M5 to Operate in the triode region

[Gray and Meyer, 4th Edition, p.271]

Sooth Cascode Current Mirror

[Gray and Meyer, 4th Edition, p.271]

[Gray and Meyer, 4th Edition, p.273]

Wilson MOS Current Mirror