Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Output common mode voltage stabilizer over large common mode input range in a high speed differential amplifier
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Application No.: US12622167Application Date: 2009-11-19
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Publication No.: US08350622B2Publication Date: 2013-01-08
- Inventor: Surendra Kumar , Tapas Nandy
- Applicant: Surendra Kumar , Tapas Nandy
- Applicant Address: NL Amsterdam
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Amsterdam
- Agency: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
- Main IPC: H03F3/45
- IPC: H03F3/45

Abstract:
A circuit includes a differential amplifier having a folded cascode architecture with a pair of cascode transistors. A sensing circuit senses a common mode input voltage of a differential input signal applied to the differential amplifier. A bias generator circuit generates a bias voltage for application to the pair of cascode transistors in the folded cascode architecture. The bias generator circuit is connected to an output of the sensing circuit such that the generated bias voltage has a value which is dependent on the sensed common mode input voltage. This dependence stabilizes a common mode output voltage from the differential amplifier in response to changes in the common mode input voltage.
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