Robust design of LV/LP low-distortion CMOS rail-to-rail input stages

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 153-162

  Lin, Chi Hung ^a   Ismail, Mohammed ^b   Pimenta, Tales ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

MAXIMUM CURRENT SELECTING CIRCUIT; TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION; TRANSCONDUCTANCE EQUALIZER BIAS CIRCUIT;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0033226111     PISSN: 09251030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008377925289     Document Type: Article

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