Externally linear, time-invariant systems and their application to companding signal processors

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

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 65-85

  Tsividis, Yannis ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Companding signal processors; Externally linear systems; Input output linear systems; Log domain circuits

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT THEORY; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME VARYING SYSTEMS;

INPUT OUTPUT LINEAR SYSTEMS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; LOG DOMAIN CIRCUITS; TIME INVARIANT SYSTEMS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0031077150     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.554425     Document Type: Article

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