Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Techniques for generating multiple low noise reference voltages
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Application No.: US16048860Application Date: 2018-07-30
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Publication No.: US10673415B2Publication Date: 2020-06-02
- Inventor: Gaurav Gupta , Arthur J. Kalb
- Applicant: Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company
- Applicant Address: BM Hamilton
- Assignee: Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company
- Current Assignee: Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company
- Current Assignee Address: BM Hamilton
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: A61B5/00
- IPC: A61B5/00 ; H03K3/011 ; H03K17/60 ; A61B5/0428 ; G05F1/567

Abstract:
Techniques to generate two separate temperature independent reference voltages. The reference voltages can be generated using a chain of ΔVBE cells. A cross-quad ΔVBE-cell-based bandgap voltage reference can cancel out noise of associated current sources by forcing them to correlate. Several ΔVBE stages can be cascaded together to generate an appreciable PTAT component that can cancel the CTAT component from VBE. In some example configurations, only BJTs are used—without requiring use of an amplifier—to generate the bandgap voltages; in this way, extremely low noise voltage references can be generated. The PTAT and the CTAT voltages can be combined to generate a bandgap voltage of approximately VG0 or approximately 2VG0.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200036366A1 TECHNIQUES FOR GENERATING MULTIPLE LOW NOISE REFERENCE VOLTAGES Public/Granted day:2020-01-30
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