The invention discloses a
CMOS difference radio-frequency
signal amplitude detection circuit, being composed of MOS transistors from M1 to Mn which work under the weak inversion polarization and a filter resistance R0 and a
capacitance C0; the MOS transistors from M1 to Mn are serially connected, and the polarization is provided by a
current source I1, the grids or drains of the transistors from M1 to Mn are respectively connected with the input positive end Rfin+ of a radio-frequency
signal or the input negative end Rfin- of the radio-frequency
signal through the capacitances from C1 to Cn, and an amplitude detection result is output by the filter resistance R0 and the
capacitance C0, the current change of the MOS transistors under the weak inversion polarization submits to index property, and higher amplitude detection
gain is obtained compared with square frequency characteristics, particularly for the
weak signal detection, the
gain is obvious, and the
power consumption is low andis approximate to zero consumption; a plurality of the MOS transistors are serially connected to lead amplitude detection output of each MOS
transistor to be serially added, thereby obtaining n timesof detection
gain; meanwhile, input impedances of radio-frequency inputs of all MOS transistors are connected in parallel, the whole
input impedance value is reduced by n times, the requirements of Qvalue that a high-frequency signal is input to a matching circuit is reduced, so as to realize to be directly connected with a radio-frequency antenna; the differential signal input is adopted, so asto be easy for
chip integration and reduce the requirements of
chip encapsulation. The circuit is particularly suitable for being applied to wake-up signal detection in a short range communication
system and weak radio-frequency signal detection in an RFID
system.