VLSI Design
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 323595, 11 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/323595
Review Article
Recent Advances on the Design of High-Gain Wideband Operational Transconductance Amplifiers
Department of Electrical Engineering, Analog and Mixed Signal Center, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Received 4 March 2009; Accepted 18 May 2009
Academic Editor: Chang-Ho Lee
Copyright © 2009 Rida Assaad and Jose Silva-Martinez. This is an open access article distributed under the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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