A Low-Power Wide-Linear-Range Transconductance Amplifier

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 123-151

  Sarpeshkar, Rahul ^a,c,d,e   Lyon, Richard F ^a,b,f,g   Mead, Carver ^a,h,i,j,k  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b APPLE INC   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e Tau Beta Pi   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Stanford Telecommunications Inc   (United States)

^h Stanford Telecommunications Inc ^*  (United States)

ⁱ NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^j Roy Swed Acad of Eng Sciences   (United States)

^k IEEE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Amplifier; Cochlea; Degeneration; Dynamic range; Low power; Noise; Transconductance; Wide linear range

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; TRANSISTORS;

BUMP LINEARIZATION METHOD; SILICON COCHLEA; TRANSCONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIERS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0031139785     PISSN: 09251030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008292213687     Document Type: Article

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