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Affiliations:
1: Department of Electrical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
2: Department of Electrical Engineering, Sagantec BV, Eindhoven, Netherlands
A directly cascadable low-power high-gain symmetrically limiting amplifier stage is presented. A novel technique for gain stabilisation uses a PTAT current source as an essential and inherent part of the common-mode bias feedback loop.