Internally varying analog circuits minimize power dissipation

IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-72

  Tsividis, Y ^a   Krishnapura, N ^a,b,c,d   Palaskas, Y ^a,b,c,d   Toth, L ^a,b,c,d  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MultiLink Corporation   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC DISTORTION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; MOSFET DEVICES; RESISTORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; POWER DISSIPATION; USABLE DYNAMIC RANGE;

LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0037230377     PISSN: 87553996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCD.2003.1175109     Document Type: Article

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