A low-voltage single input class ab transconductor with rail-to-rail input range

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Fundamental Theory and Applications

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 236-242

  El Adawy, Ahmed A ^a   Soliman, Ahmed M ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Low voltage circuits; Transconductors

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; MOSFET DEVICES; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

RAIL TO RAIL TRANSCONDUCTORS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0033890097     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/81.828577     Document Type: Article

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