2. The Ohio State University, on leave at the Norwegian Inst. Tech., Phys. Elec. N-7034, Trondheim, Norway Abatract -A CMOS architecture for a floating lincar resistor which exploits the square-law model of the MOS transistor is presented [l]. The architecture is programmable by DC control voltage and it is thresholdvoltage independent. The architecture is fabricated in a 2 p m p-well CMOS MOSIS process. The resistor occupies 210pm x 270pm, consumes .4--4mW with f 5 V supply and exhibits a signal(at 1% THD) to noise ratio of more than lOOdB over a 1V range of the DC control voltage.