A differential active load and its applications in cmos analog circuit designs

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

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 265-273

  Prodanov, Vladimir I ^a   Green, Michael M ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog multipliers; Cmos analog integrated circuits; Transconductors; Tunable filters

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FILTERS; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; GAIN CONTROL; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; TUNING;

BROAD RANGE TUNABLE TRANSCONDUCTORS; CURRENT SQUARING CIRCUITS; VOLTAGE MULTIPLIERS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031125311     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.566643     Document Type: Article

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