A Low-Voltage Low-Power Fully-Integratable Automatic Gain Control for Hearing Instruments

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 943-946

  Serdijn, Wouter A ^a   van der Woerd, Albert C ^a   Davidse, Jan ^a   van Roermund, Arthur H M> ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; HEARING AIDS; INTEGRATING CIRCUITS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; RESONANT CIRCUITS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL; HEARING INSTRUMENTS;

GAIN CONTROL;

EID: 0028484610     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: 1558173X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.297699     Document Type: Article

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