A CMOS transconductor with multidecade tuning using balanced current scaling in moderate inversion

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1078-1083

  López Martín, Antonio J ^a,b   Ramirez Angulo, Jaime ^a   Durbha, Chandrika ^a,c   Carvajal, Ramón González ^a,c  

^a Horeshoe Cir Jett Hall   (United States)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Analog CMOS circuits; Continuous time filters; Low voltage CMOS circuits; Moderate inversion; Transconductors

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; HARMONIC DISTORTION; MOS DEVICES; RESISTORS; TRANSISTORS; VLSI CIRCUITS;

ANALOG CMOS CIRCUITS; CONTINUOUS-TIME FILTERS; LOW-VOLTAGE CMOS CIRCUITS; MODERATE INVERSION; TRANSCONDUCTORS;

TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

EID: 18444414843     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2005.845980     Document Type: Article

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