Taghavi, Mohammad HosseinBelostotski, LeonidHaslett, James W.Ahmadi, Peyman2016-08-092016-08-092015-07-17M. H. Taghavi, L. Belostotski, J. W. Haslett and P. Ahmadi, "10-Gb/s 0.13- \mu{\rm m} CMOS Inductorless Modified-RGC Transimpedance Amplifier," in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, vol. 62, no. 8, pp. 1971-1980, Aug. 2015.http://hdl.handle.net/1880/51520This paper presents an inductorless 0.13-um CMOS TIA structure that is a modified version of a regulated cascode (RGC) TIA. An immittance converter is incorporated to reduce power consumption while increasing ransimpedance gain. Measured 3-dB bandwidth is 7 GHz, sufficient for 10-Gb/s operation, in the presence of 250 fF capacitance at the TIA input, representative of typical CMOS photodiode capacitance. The transimpedance gain of the single-stage TIA is 50 dB, and the group-delay variation is less than ±19 ps over the 3-dB bandwidth. The circuit occupies an active area of 180um x 90um and consumes 7 mW from a 1.5-V supply. The measured average input-referred current noise of the TIA is 31 pA/sqrt(Hz). Simulations and analysis show that the proposed single-stage TIA architecture is capable of achieving improvement in the transimpedance limit over a single-stage RGC TIA designed for the same data rate and the same input photodiode capacitance. A comparison of measurement results to published TIAs also demonstrates the competitive performance of the proposed TIA in terms of the TIA transimpendance gain, bandwidth, area, and power consumption.enCross-coupled immittance converterregulated cascode transimpedance amplifiertransimpedance amplifierjournal articleRGPIN/358707-201310.1109/TCSI.2015.244073210.11575/PRISM/35006