Demodulation of Radio Frequency Interference in CMOS Operational Amplifiers

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E86-C, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2309-2319

  Fiori, Franco ^a   Crovetti, Paolo S ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic interference (EMI); Harmonic distortion; Operational amplifier; Radio frequency interference; Volterra series

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DEMODULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK; HARMONIC DISTORTION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

FEEDBACK CIRCUITS; RADIO FREQUENCY (RF) INTERFERENCE;

OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 0344082647     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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