High-frequency distortion analysis of analog integrated circuits

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 335-345

  Wambacq, Piet ^a,b   Gielen, Georges G E ^a,b   Kinget, Peter R ^a,b   Sansen, Willy ^a,b  

^a National Fund of Scientific Research   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Analog integrated circuits; Harmonic distortion; Nonlinear distortion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001638306     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.754866     Document Type: Article

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