A micropower CMOS continuous-time filter with on-chip automatic tuning

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 695-705

  Omeni, Okundu ^a   Rodríguez Villegas, Esther ^a   Toumazou, Chris ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic tuning; Continuous time filter; Micropower; Weak inversion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDPASS FILTERS; CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; TRANSISTORS; TUNING;

AUTOMATIC TUNING; CONTINUOUS TIME FILTER; LOW VOLTAGE MICROPOWER; WEAK INVERSION;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 18144366236     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2005.844112     Document Type: Article

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