摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an adaptive biasing input stage and amplifiers including the same. SOLUTION: The adaptive biasing input stage includes pairs of differentially coupled amplifying and sensing FETs having gates with differential inputs applied thereon. In addition, a static current source is coupled to the sources of the amplifying and sensing FETs at a predetermined node. Also, current mirrors are coupled to the sensing FETs for forming loop mechanisms that increases the current through the predetermined node, when the differential inputs have a non-zero difference. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an output buffer circuit in which a slew rate increasing part constituted of a switching element is added, so that an output voltage having a high slew rate is obtained even through a smaller amount of a bias current than that required in a conventional output buffer, thereby preventing much power from being consumed. SOLUTION: The output buffer circuit including a compensation capacitive load Cc comprises: input terminals 501a-501e applying differential input voltage signals to two input terminals; an output terminal 502 that increases a gain of the differential input voltages; a current source 503 that biases the output terminal; and a slew rate increasing part 504 which is connected to the output terminal and the compensation capacitive load, and includes a switching element to increase a slew rate of the output buffer circuit. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a high-swing operational amplifier using an adaptive biasing output stage without increasing the processing cost.SOLUTION: An output stage 123 includes two transistors (switching transistor T3 and biasing transistor T4) coupled in series in a pullup current path between a VDDA node and an output node, and also includes two transistors (switching transistor T1 and biasing transistor T2) coupled in series in a pulldown current path between the output node and a ground node. Providing the biasing transistors T4, T2 reduces the maximum voltage dropped across the transistors T3, T4, thereby allowing the transistors T1 to T4 to have lower breakdown voltages than VDDA.
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the following problem: an output current varies owing to variation in-phase input potential and an operating speed decreases as a result. SOLUTION: An amplifying circuit according to the present invention has a differential output stage and a differential input stage, the differential output stage has first and second current paths connected between first and second power sources and outputting differential signals, wherein the first current path has a first resistance element between the first power source and a first node , first and second transistors between the first node and a second node, and a second resistance element between the second node and second power source, and wherein the second current path has a third resistance element between the first power source and a third node, third and fourth transistors between the third node and a fourth node, and a fourth resistance element between the fourth node and second power source, and wherein gates of the first, second, third, and fourth transistors are connected to the fourth, third, second, and first nodes, respectively and an output current of the differential input stage is connected to the first and third nodes. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a differential amplification circuit that can operate at higher speed and on lower power than the prior art.SOLUTION: The differential amplification circuit having a differential operational amplifier including a differential pair circuit and operating on a constant bias current supplied from a bias current source circuit includes: a bias current generation circuit including a current monitor circuit for detecting two currents flowing through the differential pair circuit in response to differential input voltages input into the differential pair circuit, and detecting the lower of the two currents as a monitor current for a differential voltage of the differential input voltages, a current comparison circuit for comparing the monitor current with the constant bias current supplied from the bias current source circuit, and outputting a voltage corresponding to the result of comparison, and a current amplification circuit for amplifying the voltage corresponding to the result of comparison, and controlling a current flowing to the differential pair circuit on the basis of the amplified voltage. The bias current generation circuit performs negative feedback adaptive control such that the bias current flowing to the differential pair circuit increases with decreasing monitor current.
摘要:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce power consumption in performing common mode feedback operation in a fully-differential amplifier circuit. SOLUTION: The fully-differential amplifier circuit includes: a differential amplifier configured to differentially amplify first and second input signals forming an input differential pair to generate first and second intermediate signals forming a pair; and first and second class AB amplifiers configured to amplify the first and second intermediate signals to generate first and second output signals, respectively. The first and second output signals form an output differential pair, the first class AB amplifier amplifies the first intermediate signal based on a reference voltage adjusted by a first feedback signal that is a common mode component of the first output signal and the second output signal. The second class AB amplifier amplifies the second intermediate signal based on a reference voltage adjusted by a second feedback signal that is a common mode component of the first output signal and the second output signal. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT