Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for an active negative-capacitor circuit to cancel the input capacitance of comparators
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Application No.: US15340430Application Date: 2016-11-01
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Publication No.: US09793885B2Publication Date: 2017-10-17
- Inventor: Dai Dai
- Applicant: Tensorcom, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Assignee: Tensorcom, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Tensorcom, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Carlsbad
- Agent Steven J Shattil
- Main IPC: H03M1/34
- IPC: H03M1/34 ; H03K5/24 ; H03H11/48 ; H03M1/00 ; H03M1/08 ; H03M1/18

Abstract:
A circuit comprises a first amplifier coupled to a first and a second node; a differential capacitive load coupled to the first and the second node, the differential capacitive load coupled between drains of transistors in a cross coupled transistor circuit; a current mirror coupled to a source of each transistor; and a capacitor coupled between the sources of the transistors. A plurality of amplifiers can be coupled to the differential capacitive load, wherein each amplifier comprises a clock-less pre-amplifier of a comparator. The amplifiers may be abutted to one another such that an active transistor of a first differential stage in a first amplifier behaves as a dummy transistor for an adjacent differential stage in a second amplifier.
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