A New Modeling and Optimization of Gain-Boosted Cascode Amplifier for High-Speed and Low-Voltage Applications

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 169-173

  Ahmadi, Mohammad Mahdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analog circuits; cascode amplifier; CMOS; gain boosting

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STEP RESPONSE;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; GAIN BOOSTED CASCODE AMPLIFIER (GBCA); GAIN BOOSTING;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC);

EID: 33644994835     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2005.858493     Document Type: Article

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