Winner-take-all class AB input stage: A novel concept for low-voltage power-efficient class AB amplifiers

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Ramirez Angulo, Jaime ^a   Baswa, Sushmita ^a   López Martín, Antonio J ^b   Carvajal, Ramon G ^c  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; RELIABILITY; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; TRANSISTORS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

CLASS AB AMPLIFIERS; OPERATIONAL TRANSCONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIERS (OTA); SLEW RATE (SR); SWITCHED CAPACITORS (SC);

OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 4344574036     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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