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Automatic Gain Control

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Chapter 4 presents the final AGC circuits achieved as a result of the study and the blocks implementation carried in previous chapters. In total three novel AGC circuits are proposed.

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Pérez, J., Pueyo, S., López, B. (2011). AGC Systems. In: Automatic Gain Control. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0167-4_4

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