Nah et al., 2003 - Google Patents
A 50-MHz dB-linear programmable-gain amplifier with 98-dB dynamic range and 2-dB gain steps for 3 V power supplyNah et al., 2003
- Document ID
- 1848893240940495887
- Author
- Nah K
- Park B
- Publication year
- Publication venue
- IEEE transactions on very large scale integration (VLSI) systems
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A programmable-gain amplifier (PGA) circuit introduced in this paper has a dynamic gain range of 98 dB with 2 dB gain steps and is controlled by 6-bit gain control bits for a 3 V power supply. It has been fabricated in a 0.5/spl mu/m 15 GHz f/sub T/Si BiCMOS process …
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