Negative feedback revisited

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 157-178

  Arbel, Arie ^a,b,c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b Faculty of EE

^c Sigma Xi ^*

Author keywords

Enhancing feedback; Mismatch; Negative feedback; Operational Amplifiers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DISTORTION; FEEDBACK; FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; PASSIVE NETWORKS;

FORMAL NETWORK TRANSFORMATIONS; VOLTAGE MODE AMPLIFIERS;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 0030217183     PISSN: 09251030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00195561     Document Type: Article

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