Design of Highly Linear and Low Power Base-Band Filters for High Bandwidth Current-Mode Receivers

Two base-band filters are presented in this thesis, the first one which is the first-order Trans-Impedance Amplifier (TIA) filter in a current mode receiver is a 80 MHz bandwidth filter. The main challenge to design such a high bandwidth block is stability. Since the traditional compensation approaches like the Miller technique suffer the parasitic non-dominant pole effects, it is not possible to provide such a high bandwidth compensation. The main idea proposed here is using a parallel branch to add some zeros to the system in a high-frequency range and modify the phase behavior.