"Log-domain state-space": a systematic transistor-level approach for log-domain filtering

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

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 290-305

  Drakakis, Emmanuel M ^a   Payne, Alison J ^a   Toumazou, Chris ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active filters; Analog integrated circuits; Logdomain circuits; Translinear circuits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0342967575     PISSN: 10577130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/82.754862     Document Type: Article

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