Circuit Design Techniques for Very Low-Voltage Analog Functional Blocks Using Triple-Tail Cells

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 873-885

  Kimura, Katsuji ^a  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS; GAIN CONTROL; LSI CIRCUITS; MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; TRANSISTORS;

ANALOG FUNCTIONAL BLOCKS; AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL AMPLIFIER; FOUR QUADRANT ANALOG MULTIPLIERS; LOGARITHMIC INTERMEDIATE FREQUENCY AMPLIFIER; OPERATIONAL TRANSCONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIER; TRIPLE TAIL CELLS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT;

EID: 0029408862     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/81.477198     Document Type: Article

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