• DocumentCode
    2892623
  • Title

    Highly Linear Bipolar Transconductor For Broadband High-Frequency Applications with Improved Input Voltage Swing

  • Author

    Pan, Hsuan-Yu Marcus ; Larson, Lawrence E.

  • Author_Institution
    California Univ., La Jolla, CA
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    27-30 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    713
  • Lastpage
    716
  • Abstract
    An all n-p-n highly linear wide-bandwidth bipolar transconductor (Gm) stage is presented based on a variation of Caprio´s quad. The high-frequency (HF) linearity of the improved Gm cell is examined by a Volterra analysis. The improved Gm cell has a higher input voltage swing range than other approaches
  • Keywords
    Volterra series; bipolar integrated circuits; operational amplifiers; Volterra analysis; all n-p-n highly linear wide-bandwidth bipolar transconductor stage; broadband high-frequency applications; high-frequency linearity; highly linear bipolar transconductor; Difference equations; Digital video broadcasting; Frequency; Gain; Hafnium; Linearity; Nonlinear filters; Resistors; Transconductors; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Circuits and Systems, 2007. ISCAS 2007. IEEE International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    New Orleans, LA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0920-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-0921-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISCAS.2007.377908
  • Filename
    4252734