Feedforward-regulated cascode OTA for gigahertz applications

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3373-3382

  Zheng, You ^a   Saavedra, Carlos E ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active filters; Microwave integrated circuits; Operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs); Oscillators; Phase shifters

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FILTERS; ANALOG CIRCUITS; CAPACITANCE; CASCODE AMPLIFIERS; HIGH FREQUENCY AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PHASE NOISE; PHASE SHIFTERS; TRANSCONDUCTANCE; VARIABLE FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS;

GIGAHERTZ APPLICATIONS; MICROWAVE APPLICATIONS; OUTPUT VOLTAGE SWINGS; PARASITIC CAPACITANCE; REGULATED CASCODE; SINGLE STAGE AMPLIFIERS; TRANSISTOR MISMATCH; VERY HIGH FREQUENCY;

OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 58049195173     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2008.2001800     Document Type: Article

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