MANY READERS are familiar with the difticul_ ties of long distance telephony. The signal currents, unless amplified, become attenuated and at a distance of a few hundred miles become lost in a background of noise. In telephone practice, this condition is avoided by amplifying the signal at frequent intervals. The amplifiers have come to be known as repeaters. Even in a system using repeaters, n...

A zero-drift amplifier, as the name suggests, is an amplifier with offset voltage drift very close to zero. It uses autozero or chopping technology, or a combination of both, to continuously self-correct for dc errors over time and temperature. This enables the amplifier to achieve microvoltlevel offsets and extremely low offset drifts. Therefore, it is uniquely suited to be used in signal cond...

Amplifying devices where the gain is automatically controlled by the level of the input signal performs dynamics processing. Non-linear components simulating tube amplifiers can be used in these devices to make musical signal audibly dense [1]. This paper deals with the simulation of tube amplifiers using the power polynomial approximation of transfer characteristic and their use in dynamic ran...

PURPOSE In a coupled parallel transmit (pTx) array, the power delivered to a channel is partially distributed to other channels because of coupling. This power is dissipated in circulators resulting in a significant reduction in power efficiency. In this study, a technique for designing robust decoupling matrices interfaced between the RF amplifiers and the coils is proposed. The decoupling mat...

Purpose—In a coupled parallel transmit (pTx) array, the power delivered to a channel is partially distributed to other channels because of coupling. This power is dissipated in circulators resulting in a significant reduction in power efficiency. In this paper, a technique for designing robust decoupling matrices interfaced between the RF amplifiers and the coils is proposed. The decoupling mat...

This paper presents the analysis of single Miller capacitor feedforward compensation scheme which is used in threestage CMOS operational amplifiers. single Miller compensation capacitor in three-stage amplifiers can significantly reduce the total capacitor value, and therefore, the overall area of the amplifiers without influencing their stability. Feed forward technique is effectively combined...

Amplitude- and frequency-modulated waves of Ca(2+) ions transmit information inside cells. Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS), specifically hydrogen peroxide, have been proposed to have a similar role in plant cells. We consider the feasibility of such an intracellular communication system in view of the physical and biochemical conditions in plant cells. As model system, we use a H(2)O(2) signal or...