摘要:
A threshold voltage generator for a field-effect transistor, being of a type adapted to compensate for variations of the threshold voltage from a nominal value, comprising a first amplifier having a first input connected to a current generator; a second amplifier connected ahead of a second input of the first amplifier and having an input connected to another current generator; and a third amplifier connected after the first amplifier and having an output adapted to produce the value of said threshold voltage.
摘要:
A fast capacitive-load driving circuit for driving output nodes on an integrated circuit. This circuit reduces noise interference caused by parasitic inductance by lowering the inductance voltage on the power supply lines during the switching process. This invention includes a voltage ramp, a voltage-to-current converter, and an output buffer having at least one pull-down transistor. A further embodiment includes an output buffer possessing a pull-down and a pull-up transistor.
摘要:
A method of equalizing a read channel of a mass magnetic memory device comprises attenuating the low frequencies of the spectrum of the analog signal originating from an electromagnetic read transducer without boosting the high frequency harmonic components of the spectrum. The low frequencies of the spectrum of the analog input signal are attenuated with a low pass filter of an order in a range from 6 to 8 and a boost is implemented by introducing two real and opposed zeroes in the transfer function of the filter without altering the group delay.
摘要:
A switching regulator having a switching element, a control loop for varying a duty cycle of the switching element according to a difference between a switching regulator output electric quantity and a target output electric quantity, and a digital soft start-up circuit for digitally controlling the duty cycle of the switching element, independently from said difference, in a start-up phase of the switching regulator operation.
摘要:
Embodiments of the invention provide a transconductance control circuit, particularly for a continuous-time filter, comprising a transconductor across which a constant voltage is input. The transconductor is connected to a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) to set a reference current. A feedback loop is provided between an output of the transconductor and an input. In particular, the circuit further comprises a means for mirroring the reference current set by the DAC both to the feedback loop and to at least one cell of a cascade-connected filter.
摘要:
An analog multiplier includes at least a differential output stage formed by a pair of emitter-coupled bipolar transistors. Each transistor of the pair of emitter-coupled bipolar transistors is driven by a predistortion stage having a reciprocal of a hyperbolic tangent transfer function that is attributable to the base currents of the bipolar transistors used in the predistortion stage. The error in the output signal produced by the analog multiplier is compensated by generating replicas of the base currents of the bipolar transistors of the differential output stage and forcing those replica currents on the output node of a respective predistortion stage. Various embodiments that consume different amounts of power are described.
摘要:
A variable gain amplifier which includes a first voltage-to-current amplifier having a fixed gain; a second voltage-to-current amplifier having a variable gain, functioning in parallel to said first amplifier; a gain control and stabilization variable current generator; and a current-to-voltage converter. Current output signals produced by said first and second amplifiers and by said variable current generator are summed and the resulting current signal is converted to a voltage signal by said converter.