Operational amplifier
Disclosed is an operational amplifier, including a first-stage gain circuit, a second-stage gain circuit, and a tail current compensation circuit. The first-stage gain circuit is connected to the second-stage gain circuit, the first-stage gain circuit is provided with an input terminal, the second-stage gain circuit is provided with an output terminal. The first-stage gain circuit at least includes a tail current source, a first terminal of the tail current compensation circuit is connected to the tail current source, and a second terminal of the tail current compensation circuit is connected to the output terminal of the second-stage gain circuit. The tail current compensation circuit is configured to compensate the tail current source with an output signal of the output terminal of the second-stage gain circuit.
1. An operational amplifier, comprising a first-stage gain circuit, a second-stage gain circuit, a tail current compensation circuit and a positive feedback tuning circuit, wherein
the first-stage gain circuit is connected to the second-stage gain circuit and provided with an input terminal, the second-stage gain circuit is provided with an output terminal;
the first-stage gain circuit at least comprises a tail current source, a first terminal of the tail current compensation circuit is connected to the tail current source, and a second terminal of the tail current compensation circuit is connected to the output terminal of the second-stage gain circuit;
the tail current compensation circuit is configured to compensate the tail current source with an output signal of the output terminal of the second-stage gain circuit, and
a first terminal of the positive feedback tuning circuit is connected to the first-stage gain circuit, a second terminal of the positive feedback tuning circuit is connected to ground, and the positive feedback tuning circuit is configured to reject a positive feedback signal introduced by the tail current compensation circuit.
2. The operational amplifier of claim 1 , wherein
the tail current compensation circuit comprises a compensation capacitor.
3. The operational amplifier of claim 2 , wherein the tail current compensation circuit further comprises a compensation resistor which is connected in series with the compensation capacitor.
4. The operational amplifier of claim 1 , wherein the positive feedback tuning circuit comprises one of, or a series-parallel combination of at least two of:
a capacitor;
a resistor;
an inductor; and
an active device.
5. The operational amplifier of claim 1 , wherein
the first-stage gain circuit further comprises a first-stage amplifying circuit and a current mirror load circuit, the first-stage amplifying circuit is connected to the current mirror load circuit, and to the tail current source and the tail current compensation circuit.
6. The operational amplifier of claim 5 , wherein the first-stage amplifying circuit comprises at least one of:
a cascode amplifying circuit with differential input and single-ended output; and
a common-source amplifying circuit with differential input and single-ended output.
7. The operational amplifier of claim 6 , wherein the second-stage gain circuit comprises at least one of:
a common-source amplifying circuit with single-ended input and single-ended output; and
a cascode amplifying circuit with single-ended input and single-ended output.
8. The operational amplifier of claim 5 , wherein
the first-stage amplifying circuit comprises an amplifying circuit with differential input and differential output; and
the second-stage gain circuit comprises an amplifying circuit with single-ended and single-ended output.
9. The operational amplifier of claim 5 , wherein
the current mirror load circuit comprises a cascode current mirror circuit.