A CMOS 140-mW fourth-order continuous-time low-pass filter stabilized with a class AB common-mode feedback operating at 550 MHz

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 811-820

  Pandey, Pankaj ^a,b   Silva Martinez, Jose ^a   Liu, Xuemei ^a,c  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^c MARVELL SEMICONDUCTOR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Common mode feedback (CMFB); Continuous time filters; Low distortion circuits; Operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs); OTA C filters

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; HIGH FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

COMMON-MODE FEEDBACK (CMFB); CONTINUOUS-TIME FILTERS; LOW-DISTORTION CIRCUITS; OPERATIONAL TRANSCONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIERS (OTAS);

LOW PASS FILTERS;

EID: 33645806324     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2005.859621     Document Type: Article

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