Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low noise, programmable gain current buffer
- Patent Title (中): 低噪声,可编程增益电流缓冲器
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Application No.: US15044079Application Date: 2016-02-15
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Publication No.: US09407296B2Publication Date: 2016-08-02
- Inventor: Saravanan Rajapandian , Caiyi Wang , Jing Li , Ravikanth Suravarapu , Narayanan Baskaran
- Applicant: MEDIATEK INC.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
- Current Assignee: MEDIATEK INC.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsin-Chu
- Agent Winston Hsu; Scott Margo
- Main IPC: H04B7/00
- IPC: H04B7/00 ; H04B1/40 ; H04B1/00 ; H04L5/12 ; H04W88/12 ; H03G3/30

Abstract:
A current buffer used in a receiver arrangement includes a direct path mode and a mirror path mode. The direct path mode includes a plurality of first set of transistors and a plurality of first set of current sources turned on while all remaining transistors and current sources are turned off, during the direct path mode a current signal at an input node directly appears at an output node. The mirror path mode includes a first transistor and a first current source being turned off while a plurality of second set of transistors and a plurality of second set of current sources are turned on. The current signal goes through a current mirror pair and appears at the output node with a gain which is controlled by slicing one of transistors of the current mirror pair and a second current source allowing multiple gains in the mirror path mode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160164546A1 LOW NOISE, PROGRAMMABLE GAIN CURRENT BUFFER Public/Granted day:2016-06-09
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