Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Highly linear input and output rail-to-rail amplifier
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Application No.: US16409580Application Date: 2019-05-10
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Publication No.: US11082012B2Publication Date: 2021-08-03
- Inventor: Vaibhav Pandey , Bhoodev Kumar
- Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Applicant Address: GB Edinburgh
- Assignee: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: GB Edinburgh
- Agent E. Alan Davis; James W. Huffman
- Main IPC: H03F3/45
- IPC: H03F3/45 ; H03F1/32 ; H03F1/56 ; H03M1/66

Abstract:
An amplifier includes input transconductors that receive an input signal, the input signal having a voltage swing. A supply side current mirror generates a gate voltage as a function of input signal voltage and current sources that provide a bias current of the input transconductors as a function of the gate voltage to maintain a constant bias current across the voltage swing of the input signal. Resistors average source voltages of the transconductance-cancelling transconductors to provide an average source voltage and apply the average source voltage to wells of input devices of the transconductance-cancelling transconductors to reduce back bias effect. The input devices are laid out in a same well and have a common centroid to cancel out process mismatches. A first I-DAC trims an offset of first transconductors, and a second I-DAC trims an offset of second transconductors to attain low offsets across a rail-to-rail input common mode range.
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