How to design AGC amplifiers in bipolar or MOS?

[Puppet1]

AGC Amplifiers

Hello,

I am looking for a way to learn how to design AGC amplifiers in either bipolar or MOS say for an RF Front End.

What papers, texts, thesis are good on this topic ?

Is it just a diff pair ?

Thanks

 

[krashkealoha]

Re: AGC Amplifiers

Here are a couple of papers about AGC:

1) "A DC to 1 GHz Differential Monolithic Variable Gain Amplifier" by R. Meyer et. al., JSSC, Nov. 1991.

2) "A Single-Chip Bipolar AGC Amplifier with Large Dynamic Range for Optical Fibre Receivers Operating up to 3 Gb/s" by R. Reimann et. al., JSSC, Dec. 1989.