A micropower chopper - CDS operational amplifier

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2521-2529

  Belloni, Massimiliano ^a   Bonizzoni, Edoardo ^a   Fornasari, Andrea ^b   Maloberti, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b National Semiconductor   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chopper technique; CMOS analog integrated circuits; offset cancellation; operational amplifiers; ripple reduction

Indexed keywords

AC COUPLING; CDS; CHOPPER TECHNIQUE; CMOS ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; CORRELATED DOUBLE SAMPLING; CURRENT CONSUMPTION; DC GAIN; EFFICIENCY FACTOR; INPUT NOISE; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW POWER; MICROPOWER; OFFSET CANCELLATION; OFFSET VOLTAGE; RAIL-TO-RAIL; RIPPLE REDUCTION; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; BANDPASS AMPLIFIERS; CHOPPER AMPLIFIERS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

CHOPPERS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 78650071628     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2010.2076430     Document Type: Conference Paper

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