Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wide range operational charge pump circuit
- Patent Title (中): 宽范围运算电荷泵电路
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Application No.: US12212730Application Date: 2008-09-18
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Publication No.: US07768326B2Publication Date: 2010-08-03
- Inventor: Masaaki Kaneko
- Applicant: Masaaki Kaneko
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Law Offices of Mark L. Berrier
- Main IPC: H03L7/06
- IPC: H03L7/06

Abstract:
A charge pump that includes cascode transistors and current mirror circuitry to form a folded cascode structure that isolates the control inputs from the charge pump output and also increases the range of the output. The charge pump includes inputs to receive UP and DN (down) control signals and provides an output current that is based on the control signals. The charge pump may be configured as either a differential or non-differential device. The switching transistors that receive the control signals may use a lower voltage than the current source transistors in the charge pump In differential-type embodiments of the present charge pump, an amplifier can be used to control current source transistors based on differences between the output voltages of the charge pump, thereby adjusting the current flowing through the current source transistors and driving the average of the output voltages to a desired common mode voltage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100066420A1 Wide Range Operational Charge Pump Circuit Public/Granted day:2010-03-18
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