Dynamic biasing for true low-voltage CMOS class AB current-mode circuits

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

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1569-1575

  Palmisano, G ^a   Pennisi, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); CAPACITORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT LAYOUT; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MIRRORS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

BIASING; CURRENT MIRRORS; CURRENT MODE CIRCUITS; SWITCHED CAPACITOR;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TESTING;

EID: 0034461867     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.899658     Document Type: Article

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