A low voltage, rail-to-rail, class AB CMOS amplifier with high drive and low output impedance characteristics

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

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 753-761

  Rincon Mora, Gabriel A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Class ab; Low output impedance; Low voltage; Operational amplifier; Power efficient; Rail to rail

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011739369     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.959865     Document Type: Article

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