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A temperature-stable CMOS variable-gain amplifier with 80-dB linearly controlled gain range

Yamaji et al., 2002

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6058082766912395901
Author
Yamaji T
Kanou N
Itakura T
Publication year
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IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

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A CMOS variable-gain amplifier (VGA) using subthreshold exponential region transistors with master-slave control technique is proposed. The proposed technique is applied to an intermediate-frequency VGA with a quadrature demodulator for wireless receivers. The test …
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