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California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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1997

Transconductors

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A Differential Active Load And Its Applications In Cmos Analog Circuit Designs, Vladimir I. Prodanov, Michael M. Green Apr 1997

A Differential Active Load And Its Applications In Cmos Analog Circuit Designs, Vladimir I. Prodanov, Michael M. Green

Electrical Engineering

In this paper we describe a CMOS differential active load and show how it can be used to create various useful structures. Tunable current gain stages and current squaring circuits are discussed. Their connection to a differential pairbased transconductor results in broad-range tunable transconductor structures suitable for adaptive continuous-time filtering applications and a four-quadrant voltage multiplier.