A Low-Voltage Fully Differential Constant-Gm Rail-to-Rail CMOS Operational Amplifier

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-15

  Ferri, Giuseppe ^a,b,c   Sansen, Willy ^{b,d,e,f,g,h,i}   Peluso, Vincenzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c IEEE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Electrical Engineering Department

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

ⁱ Technical University Ulm   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fully differential; Low voltage low power analog integrated circuits; Operational amplifiers

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; FEEDBACK; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; PERFORMANCE; TRANSISTORS;

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0032045781     PISSN: 09251030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008291116546     Document Type: Article

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