Compact power-efficient CMOS exponential voltage-to-voltage converter

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1539-1542

  De La Cruz Blas, Carlos A ^a   López Martín, Antonio ^a  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

LINEARITY ERROR; NONLINEAR CURRENTS; VOLTAGE RANGE; VOLTAGE-TO-VOLTAGE CONVERTER;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 33845396680     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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