New low-voltage fully programmable CMOS triangular/trapezoidal function generator circuit

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2033-2042

  Kachare, Meghraj ^a,b   Ramírez Angulo, Jaime ^a   Carvajal, Ramón Gonzalez ^a,c   López Martín, Antonio J ^a,d  

^a New Mexico State Univ   (United States)

^b Fasken Inc   (India)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

^d PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Analog integrated circuits; Analog processing circuits; Analog to digital conversion; Nonlinear circuits; Piecewise linear (PWL) techniques

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY SETS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ANALOG PROCESSING CIRCUITS; NEURO FUZZY SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR CIRCUITS;

FUNCTION GENERATORS;

EID: 27644465532     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2005.853243     Document Type: Article

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