You are to design an amplifier to provide a gain of 8 using the 0.35-μm CMOS process in Table 1.5. The input voltage source resistance is and the load is . Assume the supply voltage is 3 V and the...

You are to design an amplifier to provide a gain of 8 using the 0.35-μm CMOS process in Table 1.5. The input voltage source resistance is and the load is . Assume the supply voltage is 3 V and the power consumption is to be 12 mW.

a. If a NMOS common-source amplifier is used, what will maximize the bandwidth? Estimate the bandwidth.

b. If a NMOS telescopic cascode amplifier is used, and assuming , size the transistors to maximize bandwidth. Estimate the resulting bandwidth and compare it to the result in part (a).

c. Repeat part (b), but this time design a PMOS cascode amplifier. How does your bandwidth estimate compare to that of part (b)?