A linear-control wide-band CMOS attenuator

ISCAS 2001 - 2001 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Conference Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2001, Pages 458-461

  Kaunisto, Risto ^a   Korpi, Petri ^b   Kiraly, Jiri ^b   Halonen, Kari ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION CONTROL; CMOS ATTENUATOR; COMPRESSION POINTS; CONSTANT-CURRENT; DC POWER CONSUMPTION; MULTI-OCTAVE BANDWIDTHS; REFERENCE DEVICES; SELF-ADJUSTING;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 17044374738     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2001.922272     Document Type: Conference Paper

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