Two-Stage Inverter-Based OTA With 56-dB Gain and Digitally Reconfigurable GBW/SR for PVT-Resiliency

This work presents a novel configurable two-stage inverter-based ultra-low-power (ULP) OTA with digitally adjustable output stage for dynamic adjustments of gain-bandwidth product, (GBW) and average slew rate (${\mathbf {SR}}_{\mathbf {av}}$). This approach improves both the flexibility of the OTA compared to conventional DC-biased designs, providing a reliable solution for mitigating process, voltage, and temperature variations. The circuit is designed using standard cells in a 180-nm CMOS process and is then fully synthesizable. Experimental measurements are executed over process corners and voltage variations. The proposed OTA works at nominal 0.3-V power-supply voltage and consumes only 1.2 nW, while exhibiting 56-dB DC gain and 7.6-kHz maximum GBW with 5-pF capacitive load.