High-frequency nonlinearity analysis of common-emitter and differential-pair transconductance stages

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 548-555

  Fong, Keng Leong ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Meyer, Robert G ^a,b,g  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Rockwell International   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amplifier distortion; Analog integrated circuits; Circuit analysis; Circuit optimization; Nonlinear circuits; Nonlinear distortion; Nonlinear equations; Volterra series

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000565246     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.663559     Document Type: Article

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