Abstract:
An amplifier circuit (12) having improved common mode rejection is provided. This can be achieved by estimating the common mode value of an input signal and using this to adjust a target common mode voltage at the output of the amplifier (12). This can help avoid the differential gain becoming modified by the common mode voltage.
Abstract:
Embodiments generally relate to a conversion arrangement, a driver arrangement, and a method of producing a complementary complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) output signal for driving a modulator device. The conversion arrangement includes a differential amplifier configured to produce a first amplified signal based on the differential input signal, and at least two transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) coupled with respective outputs of the differential amplifier and configured to produce a second amplified signal based on the first amplified signal. Respective bias voltages for the TIAs are based on the first amplified signal. The conversion arrangement further includes a common-mode feedback arrangement coupled with outputs of the TIAs and configured to control the first amplified signal based on the second amplified signal, thereby controlling the bias voltages, wherein the complementary CMOS output signal is based on the second amplified signal.
Abstract:
A bias generation method or apparatus defined by any one or any practical combination of numerous features that contribute to low noise and/or high efficiency biasing, including: having a charge pump control clock output with a waveform having limited harmonic content or distortion compared to a sine wave; having a ring oscillator to generating a charge pump clock that includes inverters current limited by cascode devices and achieves substantially rail-to-rail output amplitude; having a differential ring oscillator with optional startup and/or phase locking features to produce two phase outputs suitably matched and in adequate phase opposition; having a ring oscillator of less than five stages generating a charge pump clock; capacitively coupling the clock output(s) to some or all of the charge transfer capacitor switches; biasing an FET, which is capacitively coupled to a drive signal, to a bias voltage via an "active bias resistor" circuit that conducts between output terminals only during portions of a waveform appearing between the terminals, and/or wherein the bias voltage is generated by switching a small capacitance at cycles of said waveform. A threshold voltage bias voltage generation circuit may A charge pump for the bias generation may include a regulating feedback loop including an OTA that is also suitable for other uses, the OTA having a ratio-control input that controls a current mirror ratio in a differential amplifier over a continuous range, and optionally has differential outputs including an inverting output produced by a second differential amplifier that optionally includes a variable ratio current mirror controlled by the same ratio-control input. The ratio-control input may therefore control a common mode voltage of the differential outputs of the OTA. A control loop around the OTA may be configured to control the ratio of one or more variable ratio current mirrors, which may particularly control the output common mode voltage, and may control it such that the inverting output level tracks the non-inverting output level to cause the amplifier to function as a high-gain integrator.
Abstract:
A system and method for a fast stabilizing output buffer. A differential driver circuit is provided with an amplifier stage for receiving a differential input signal and generating a differential output based upon the input signal. The differential output has a corresponding common-mode (CM) voltage level typically based upon a value half of the power supply. A common-mode feedback buffer (CMFB) stage detects a change in the CM voltage level and recovers the CM voltage level to its desired value within a very fast settling time based upon a very high bus frequency. The CMFB stage utilizes a topology comprising only a single device. In one embodiment, this single device is a nmos transistor utilized as a transimpedance stage. Stability is provided by a circuit biasing stage and a shunting capacitor within the CMFB stage.
Abstract:
A receiving circuit in accordance with an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a first voltage-dividing circuit that outputs a first input signal obtained by voltage division of one of differential signals based on the resistance ratio between first and second resistors, a second voltage-dividing circuit that outputs a second input signal obtained by voltage division of the other of the differential signals based on the resistance ratio between third and fourth resistors, a differential amplifier that amplifies the differential component between the first and second input signals, a common-mode voltage detection circuit that detects the common-mode voltage of the differential signals, and a bias voltage switching circuit that switches the voltage value of a bias voltage based on the common-mode voltage.
Abstract:
A bias generation method or apparatus defined by any one or any practical combination of numerous features that contribute to low noise and/or high efficiency biasing, including: having a charge pump control clock output with a waveform having limited harmonic content or distortion compared to a sine wave; having a ring oscillator to generating a charge pump clock that includes inverters current limited by cascode devices and achieves substantially rail-to-rail output amplitude; having a differential ring oscillator with optional startup and/or phase locking features to produce two phase outputs suitably matched and in adequate phase opposition; having a ring oscillator of less than five stages generating a charge pump clock; capacitively coupling the clock output(s) to some or all of the charge transfer capacitor switches; biasing an FET, which is capacitively coupled to a drive signal, to a bias voltage via an "active bias resistor" circuit that conducts between output terminals only during portions of a waveform appearing between the terminals, and/or wherein the bias voltage is generated by switching a small capacitance at cycles of said waveform. A threshold voltage bias voltage generation circuit may A charge pump for the bias generation may include a regulating feedback loop including an OTA that is also suitable for other uses, the OTA having a ratio-control input that controls a current mirror ratio in a differential amplifier over a continuous range, and optionally has differential outputs including an inverting output produced by a second differential amplifier that optionally includes a variable ratio current mirror controlled by the same ratio-control input. The ratio-control input may therefore control a common mode voltage of the differential outputs of the OTA. A control loop around the OTA may be configured to control the ratio of one or more variable ratio current mirrors, which may particularly control the output common mode voltage, and may control it such that the inverting output level tracks the non-inverting output level to cause the amplifier to function as a high-gain integrator.
Abstract:
An apparatus(300) for converting a fully-differential input signal to an output signal which varies between two rail limits (324, 326) and includes: (a) a first buffer (310) receiving one component at a first input (309), presenting a first buffer output signal at a first buffer output (316) and generating a first representative signal; (b) a second buffer (312) receiving the other component at a second input (307), presenting a second buffer output signal at a second buffer output (320) and generating a second representative signal; (c) a control unit (360) coupled with at least one of the buffer outputs (362) and comparing the buffer output signals with a reference signal (368) to generate at least one control signal for reducing drift in the first and second components; and (d) an output unit (304) coupled for combining the representative signals from the buffers to present the single output signal with rail-to-rail variance at an output locus.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a differential complementary amplifier that comprises two MOSFET amplifier branches (1, 2). According to the invention, the second amplifier branch (2) is operated in the opposite sense relative to the first amplifier branch (1). The outputs of the two amplifier branches (1, 2) form a differential output and are interlinked in a node (A) via a load resistor (R1, R2). The operating point of the two amplifier branches (1, 2) is adjusted via the voltage applied to said node (A). The invention provides a fully differential, highly symmetrical amplifier circuit in which both amplifier branches are used as amplifiers and a signal is derived from said amplifier branches to stabilize the operating point.
Abstract:
A wideband common-mode regulation circuit for coupling a differential amplifier, or more particularly a Low Voltage Differential Signaling driver LVDS, to a load generally constituted by a telecommunication transmission line. The regulation circuit only comprises a first resistive pair (R1, R2) to sense the common-mode voltage at the differential input terminals (INP, INN), a second resistive pair (R3, R4) to force the voltage across the load to a predetermined value, and an active device (OTA, INV) coupled between the junction points of the first and the second resistive pairs. The active device is an Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) or, preferably, an inverter (INV). Owing to reduced number of non-dominant poles in the common-mode open-loop transfer characteristic, this regulation circuit provides common-mode loop stability for wide common-mode loop bandwidth.