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Electronics

current mirror with an emitter resistor in the output transistor that produces a small, stable output current from a much larger reference.

In electronics, Widlar current source refers to current mirror with an emitter resistor in the output transistor that produces a small, stable output current from a much larger reference. This meaning comes from Widlar (1965) in IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory.[1]

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References

Widlar, R. (1965). Some Circuit Design Techniques for Linear Integrated Circuits. IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory, 12(4), 586-590. https://doi.org/10.1109/tct.1965.1082512

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