Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Low power buffer with dynamic gain control
- Patent Title (中): 具有动态增益控制功能的低功耗缓冲器
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Application No.: US14614253Application Date: 2015-02-04
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Publication No.: US09553569B1Publication Date: 2017-01-24
- Inventor: James Lawrence Gorecki , Han-Yuan Tan
- Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Ogawa P.C.
- Agent Richard T. Ogawa
- Main IPC: H03K5/02
- IPC: H03K5/02 ; H03K5/01 ; H03F3/30

Abstract:
The present disclosure provides a detailed description of techniques for implementing a low power buffer with dynamic gain control. More specifically, some embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a buffer having a gain boost configuration and a current shunt circuit to control the gain of a respective gain boosting transistor of the gain boost configuration. The current shunt circuit and resulting gain are dynamically controlled by a gain control signal such that the buffer gain can be adjusted to within an acceptable range of the target gain for the current operating and device mismatch conditions. In one or more embodiments, the gain boost configuration with dynamic gain control can be deployed in a full differential implementation. Both analog and digital dynamic calibration and control techniques can be used to provide the gain control signals to multiple current shunt circuits and multiple buffers.
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