This paper discusses the design of low-voltage low-power fully-integratable automatic gain controls. Four different AGCs are presented, all consisting of three elementary building blocks: a controlled amplifier, a comparator and a voltage follower. Their design is treated separately. As an example, the final section describes an automatic gain control for hearing instruments. INTRODUCTION Low-v...

Nonideal factors which play a key role in performance and yield in high-precision applications of operational amplifiers are rigorously investigated. Of necessity, the combined effects of both deterministic and statistical parameters must be incorporated. The statistical characteristics of the common-mode rejection ratio and the offset of two-stage CMOS op-amps are investigated. The op-amp erro...

Class AB differential amplifiers using composite BiCMOS and bipolar transistors are introduced. Their utilization for the implementation of low voltage (+-1.65V) operational amplifiers with high slew rate and rail to rail common mode input voltage range is discussed.