The recycling folded cascode: A general enhancement of the folded cascode amplifier

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2535-2542

  Assaad, Rida S ^a   Silva Martinez, Jose ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifiers; CMOS analog integrated circuits; Fast operational amplifiers; Low power low voltage integrated circuits; Operational amplifiers; Operational transconductance amplifiers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIERS; CMOS ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FAST OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; LOW-POWER LOW-VOLTAGE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPERATIONAL TRANSCONDUCTANCE AMPLIFIERS;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; BANDPASS AMPLIFIERS; FEEDBACK AMPLIFIERS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; RECYCLING; TRANSCONDUCTANCE;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 70249126615     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2024819     Document Type: Article

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