A rail-to-rail constant-gm low-voltage CMOS operational transconductance amplifier

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1563-1567

  Ferri, Giuseppe ^a   Sansen, Willy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Amplifiers; CMOS analog integrated circuits

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

COMMON MODE VOLTAGE; OPERATIONAL TRANSCONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIERS;

OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0031258139     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.634665     Document Type: Article

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