Analysis and optimization of noise in continuous-time OTA-C filters

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1086-1094

  Koziel, Slawomir ^a,b   Schaumann, Rolf ^c   Xiao, Haiqiao ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Filter optimization; Noise analysis; Operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) C filters

Indexed keywords

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; OPTIMIZATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

FILTER OPTIMIZATION; NOISE ANALYSIS; OPERATIONAL TRANSCONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIER (OTA)-C FILTERS; RADIO FREQUENCY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC FILTERS;

EID: 22144476256     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2005.849142     Document Type: Article

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