Non-stationary noise responses of some fully differential on-chip readout circuits suitable for cmos image sensors

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1461-1474

  Degerli, Yavuz ^a   Lavernhe, Francis ^a   Magnan, Pierre ^a   Farré, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; CAPACITORS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SENSORS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

CASCODE OPERATIONAL TRANSCONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIERS; ON-CHIP READOUT CIRCUITS; SWITCHED-CAPACITOR VOLTAGE AMPLIFIERS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0033280857     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.809532     Document Type: Article

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