Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Current steering mode digital-to-analog converter circuit configured to generate variable output current
- Patent Title (中): 电流转向模式数模转换器电路配置为产生可变输出电流
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Application No.: US14504494Application Date: 2014-10-02
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Publication No.: US09323273B2Publication Date: 2016-04-26
- Inventor: Meng Wang , Xue Lian Zhou
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd
- Applicant Address: CN Shenzhen
- Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (SHENZHEN) R&D CO. LTD
- Current Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (SHENZHEN) R&D CO. LTD
- Current Assignee Address: CN Shenzhen
- Agency: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
- Priority: CN201410448786 20140829
- Main IPC: H05B37/02
- IPC: H05B37/02 ; G05F3/26 ; H05B33/08

Abstract:
A current source circuit is configured to receive a reference current at the input circuit path of a current mirror circuit. The current mirror circuit mirrors the reference current and generates mirror currents at a number of output circuit paths. A corresponding number of control transistors are connected in series with the output circuit paths. Each control transistor is selectively actuated in response to a control signal. A decoder circuit is configured to receive a variable control signal and generate actuation signals in response thereto to selective actuate the control transistors to pass the mirror current to an output node. At the output node, the passed mirror currents are summed to generate a variable output current. The variable current is monotonically modulated in response to the variable control signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160062384A1 CURRENT STEERING MODE DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER CIRCUIT CONFIGURED TO GENERATE VARIABLE OUTPUT CURRENT Public/Granted day:2016-03-03
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