Simple rail-to-rail low-voltage constant-transconductance CMOS input stage in weak inversion

Electronics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 1145-1147

  Botma, J H ^a   Wassenaar, R F ^a   Wiegerink, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Integrated circuits; Operational amplifiers

Indexed keywords

BUFFER AMPLIFIERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MOS DEVICES; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; TRANSISTORS;

RAIL TO RAIL INPUT RANGE; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; WEAK INVERSION;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0027612667     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19930764     Document Type: Article

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