A 1.2-V low-power BiCMOS class AB log-domain filter

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1968-1978

  Punzenberger, Manfred ^a,b,d,e   Enz, Christian C ^a,b,c,f  

^a IEEE   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Rockwell Semiconductor Systems ^*  (United States)

^d GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^e SIEMENS AG ÖSTERREICH   (Austria)

^f Smart Silicon Systems   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

BiCMOS analog integrated circuits; Companding signal processing; Continuous time filters; Current mode; Log domain filters; Low power; Low voltage; Tunable filters

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONTINUOUS TIME FILTERS; LOG DOMAIN FILTERS; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION (THD);

ELECTRIC FILTERS;

EID: 0031352217     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.643655     Document Type: Article

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