Phase compensation techniques for low-power operational amplifiers

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E93-C, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 730-740

  Ito, Rui ^a   Itakura, Tetsuro ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Low power; Operational amplifier (opamp); Phasecompensation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ELECTRIC SIGNAL SYSTEMS; MIXED SIGNAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER AMPLIFIERS;

ANALOG AND MIXED SIGNAL CIRCUITS; FUNCTIONAL BLOCK; LOW POWER; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; MILLER COMPENSATION; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIER (OPAMP); PHASE COMPENSATION; SLEW RATE ENHANCEMENT;

OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 77952991427     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transele.E93.C.730     Document Type: Article

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