For solving the problem that the internal reference voltage buffer of high-speed analog-to-digital converter(ADC)has to consume large power to achieve high accuracy and high sampling rate
a fully differential reference voltage buffer with an asymmetric class-AB output stage is presented. The voltage buffer achieves high precision with a relatively low op-amp gain
which significantly reduces the power consumption of the buffer. By introducing an asymmetric output structure
the circuit only needs to satisfy large bandwidth but no longer needs a high open-loop gain
and the input stage uses a complementary structure to further reduce power consumption. A class-AB driving circuit with low output impedance eliminates the high-resistance nodes introduced by the common structure and increases the bandwidth. Simulation results show that the power consumption of this reference voltage buffer is 27 mW and the settling time is less than 2.5 ns when driving a 20 pF on-chip filtering capacitor
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