An Ultra-Low-Voltage Ultra-Low-Power CMOS Miller OTA with Rail-to-Rail Input/Output Swing

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 843-847

  Ferreira, Luís H ^a   Pimenta, Tales Cleber ^a   Moreno, Robson L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ITAJUBÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bulk driven differential pair; full swing; Miller operational transconductance amplifier (OTA); operational amplifier; rail to rail; ultra low power circuits; ultra low voltage

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; TOPOLOGY; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; TRANSISTORS;

BULK-DRIVEN DIFFERENTIAL PAIR; MILLER OPERATIONAL TRANSCONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIER;

OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 36249007483     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2007.902216     Document Type: Article

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