Dynamic range optimization of weakly nonlinear, fully balanced, Gm-C filters with power dissipation constraints

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

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 714-727

  Palaskas, Yorgos ^a   Tsividis, Yannis ^a  

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

Author keywords

Active filters; Channel selection; Dynamic range (DR) optimization; Gain allocation; Gm C filters; Low noise; Low power

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL DISTORTION; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CHANNEL SELECTION; CONTINUOUS-TIME ACTIVE FILTERS; DYNAMIC RANGE OPTIMIZATION; GAIN ALLOCATION;

ACTIVE FILTERS;

EID: 0242334107     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2003.818365     Document Type: Article

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