Recently, different medical devices are emerged and
widely used such as pulse oximetry, cuffless blood pressure
using Photoplethysmogram (PPG), noninvasive blood glucose
measuring, and Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS). Those
technical devices are very similar in their analog circuit front
end architecture which is a transimpedance amplifier (TIA).
Many different TIA topologies have appeared in many different
optoelectronics field which makes the choice of a certain TIA
a confusing and challenging task. In this regard, this review
paper presents a comparison between nine state of the art
of a previously published TIA topologies. All topologies are
simulated to target the same 10 MHz bandwidth (BW) at four
different cases using 130 nm CMOS technology. The topologies
are simulated with 2 pF photodiode (PD) input capacitance,
one time while targeting minimum input noise and the other
time while targeting minimum power consumption. The same
procedure is done with 10 pF input capacitance as well to
account for different PD area. A noise and transimpedance gain
mathematical models are also presented for every topology. A
suggestions to the designer on which TIA to use is included
according to the obtained results.