CMOS op-amp sizing using a geometric programming formulation

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 22-38

  Mandal, Pradip ^b   Visvanathan, V ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

^c CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell generation; Device models; Optimization; Transistor sizing; VLSI

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; MOSFET DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

GEOMETRIC PROGRAMMING;

OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0035057265     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/43.905672     Document Type: Article

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