A laser-trimmed rail-to-rail precision CMOS operational amplifier

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 75-79

  Singh, Rahul ^a   Audet, Yves ^b   Gagnon, Yves ^c   Savaria, Yvon ^b   Boulais, Étienne ^b   Meunier, Michel ^b  

^a ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES   (United States)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c Dolphin Integration   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complementary metaloxidesemiconductor (CMOS) analog integrated circuit (IC); input offset voltage trimming; precision operational amplifier; rail to rail differential amplifier

Indexed keywords

ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; METALS; MOS DEVICES; OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; RESISTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TRIMMING;

CMOS OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS; COMPLEMENTARY METAL-OXIDE-SEMICONDUCTOR PROCESS TECHNOLOGIES; COMPLEMENTARY-METALOXIDESEMICONDUCTOR (CMOS) ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC); OFFSET VOLTAGE; OPEN LOOP DIRECT CURRENT GAIN; POLYSILICON RESISTORS; RAIL-TO-RAIL; TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANIES;

OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 79952041470     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2010.2104011     Document Type: Article

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