Low-Voltage CMOS Rail-to-Rail V-I Converters

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 261-274

  Hung, Chung Chih ^a,b,c,e,f   Hwang, Changku ^c,d,g,h,i,j   Ismail, Mohammed ^a,b,k,l,m   Halonen, Kari ^a,n,o,p   Porra, Veikko ^a,o,q,r,s,t  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Micrys   (United States)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f Taiwanese Marine Corps   (Taiwan)

^g Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^h SAMSUNG Electronics   (South Korea)

ⁱ Semiconductor Division

^j Micrys Inc

^k CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^l UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^m UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^o VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^p Fincitec Inc   (Finland)

^q POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^r Radio and Microwave Engineering

^s Lifelong Learning Institute DIPOLI   (Finland)

^t IEEE

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Author keywords

Low voltage; OTA; Rail to rail; V I converter; Voltage to current converter

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; LINEARIZATION; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; VLSI CIRCUITS;

VOLTAGE TO CURRENT CONVERTERS;

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS;

EID: 0031190051     PISSN: 09251030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008270232673     Document Type: Article

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