A 1-V BiCMOS rail-to-rail amplifier with n-channel depletion mode input stage

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 2012-2022

  Griffith, Richard ^a,b,c   Vyne, Robert L ^{a,d,e,f,g,h,i}   Dotson, Robert N ^a,e   Petty, Tom ^a,j,k  

^a MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

^b ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c National Technological University   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f Operational Amplifier Group

^g University of Arizona ^*

^h Oper Amplifier Prod Eng Group

ⁱ Power and Amplifier Group

^j UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^k STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Amplifier noise; Analog integrated circuits; BiC MOS analog integrated circuits; Bipolar analog integrated circuits; Bipolar transistor amplifiers; Low power; Low voltage; Operational amplifiers

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MOSFET DEVICES;

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RAIL TO RAIL AMPLIFIERS;

OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0031332068     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.643659     Document Type: Article

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