Dynamic translinear circuits - an overview

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 111-126

  Mulder, Jan ^a   Serdijn, Wouter A ^b   Van Der Woerd, Albert C ^b   Van Roermund, Arthur H M ^a,b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; CURRENT VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; LINEAR NETWORK ANALYSIS; LINEAR NETWORK SYNTHESIS; MOSFET DEVICES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

COMPANDING LOG DOMAIN FILTERS; TRANSLINEAR CIRCUITS;

LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0033735053     PISSN: 09251030     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008332324277     Document Type: Article

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