A low-voltage ultra-low-power translinear integrator for audio filter applications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 577-581

  Serdijn, Wouter A ^a   Broest, Martijn ^a   Mulder, Jan ^a   Van Der Woerd, Albert C ^a   Van Roermund, Arthur H M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active filters; Bipolar analog integrated circuits; Current mode; Low power; Low voltage

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FILTERS; BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW PASS FILTERS; MOSFET DEVICES;

AUDIO FILTER; BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PROCESS; CURRENT MODE; CUTOFF FREQUENCY; HEARING INSTRUMENTS; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION; TRANSLINEAR INTEGRATOR;

INTEGRATING CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031121663     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.563680     Document Type: Article

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