摘要:
There is described an improved receiver which first comprises an analog input amplifier a sample and hold differential circuit and two stages of differential comparators that are connected in series, wherein the first stage consists of two comparators and the second stage of one comparator. By properly activating the switches with signals generated by a dedicated control logic, the input differential signal is sampled in the sample and hold circuit to generate first and second differential signals. The first differential signal holds a first state and the second differential signal propagates the second state. As result, the signal output by the second comparator stage reflects the differential offset minus the offset compensation.
摘要:
There is described an improved receiver which first comprises an analog input amplifier a sample and hold differential circuit and two stages of differential comparators that are connected in series, wherein the first stage consists of two comparators and the second stage of one comparator. By properly activating the switches with signals generated by a dedicated control logic, the input differential signal is sampled in the sample and hold circuit to generate first and second differential signals. The first differential signal holds a first state and the second differential signal propagates the second state. As result, the signal output by the second comparator stage reflects the differential offset minus the offset compensation.
摘要:
A differential sampling circuit is configured around a differential operational amplifier and is provided with a pair of switched-capacitor networks, each including an circuit block, to generate the real value of the differential input signal DC offset at each system clock cycle. During the first half cycle, the differential input signal pair (Vin+,Vin−) is sampled and the holding capacitors in each network are charged. During the second half cycle, the differential input signal pair is sampled again and the holding capacitors are further charged. At the end of the cycle, the charges held in the holding capacitors are applied to the differential operational amplifier, so that the differential output signal is equal to the real differential input signal DC offset value.
摘要:
A circuit for providing a bandgap voltage. The circuit includes a classic bandgap reference voltage generation circuit including first end second serially connected transistors acting as a current mirror to another portion of the classical bandgap reference circuit and being coupled between a supply voltage Vdd and an output resistor. The circuit also includes a current trimming circuit coupled in parallel with the classical bandgap reference generation circuit including a fixed element portion including a plurality of transistors and a switch portion including a plurality of switches. Each of the plurality of transistors is coupled to the supply voltage Vdd and to a one of the plurality of switches and each switch includes a fuse.
摘要:
There is disclosed an improved 2-stage large bandwidth amplifier (20) comprised of two stages formed by first and second bipolar transistors (Q1,Q2) configured in common emitter that are connected in series with their emitters connected to a first supply voltage (Gnd). The input signal (Vin) is applied to the base of said first transistor via an input terminal (11), while the output signal (Vout) is available at an output terminal (12) connected to the collector of said second transistor. A parallel feedback structure (13′) is provided. It consists, in a first branch, of two diodes (D1,D2) in series connected between a second supply voltage (Vcc) and the collector of the second bipolar transistor, and in another branch of a third bipolar transistor (Q3) configured in emitter follower with a resistor (Rf) in the emitter. The base and the collector of said third bipolar transistor are respectively connected to the common node of said diodes and to said second supply voltage. The resistor is connected to the common node of said first and second transistors to inject the feedback signal (Vf). Because, the two bodies have a low internal resistance and reduce the collector capacitance of the second transistor, the overall bandwidth of the improved amplifier is significantly extended in the very high frequencies (e.g. 20 GHz and above).
摘要:
A decoder circuit for a static random access memory cell and which may be integrated in monolithic form using gallium arsenide field effect transistors. The circuit comprises a first logic NOR-gate P.sub.1 having (n+1) inputs on which the n coded memory address signals or their complements are received, and also the chip-enable selection signal SB. The gate P.sub.1 is connected by a load resistor R to a supply voltage V.sub.DD1. A second NOR-gate P.sub.2 receives the same inputs as the gate P.sub.1 and has as its load a transistor T.sub.0 the gate electrode of which receives the output of the gate P.sub.1 and the drain of which is connected to a power supply voltage V.sub.DD2 which is less than V.sub.DD1. The voltage V.sub.DD2 is also the supply voltage for the memory cell, and is set at the clipping value of the gate junctions of the constituent transistors of that cell. The output V.sub.S of the decoder is produced at the drains of the transistors forming the second NOR-gate P.sub.2 which are connected to the source electrode of the load transistor T.sub.0. The inputs of the NOR-gates receive a chip-enable selection signal SB after application of the n coded memory address signals, thereby achieving reduced access time for the memory cell.
摘要:
A monolithic integrated memory includes a differential read amplifier circuit which is associated with a column of the memory and which has two source-coupled field effect transistors, the coupling point of which is controlled by a current source which itself is controlled by the output signal of a decoder stage which enables the selection of the memory column. The gate of each coupled transistor receives the signal of a bit line of the memory column, while the drains of the coupled transistors apply a signal to the read bus of the memory. A translator circuit is provided for translating the levels of the signals transported by the bit lines in order to ensure that these levels are at most equal to the levels of the signals transported by the read bus, so that the gate-drain capacitances of the coupled transistors of the differential amplifier are negligibly small.
摘要:
A circuit for providing a bandgap voltage. The circuit includes a classic bandgap reference voltage generation circuit including first end second serially connected transistors acting as a current mirror to another portion of the classical bandgap reference circuit and being coupled between a supply voltage Vdd and an output resistor. The circuit also includes a current trimming circuit coupled in parallel with the classical bandgap reference generation circuit including a fixed element portion including a plurality of transistors and a switch portion including a plurality of switches. Each of the plurality of transistors is coupled to the supply voltage Vdd and to a one of the plurality of switches and each switch includes a fuse.
摘要:
There is disclosed an improved differential amplifier (20) having a feedback loop that generates an amplified output signal (Vout) from an input signal (Vin) supplied by a preceding stage. It comprises an input matching circuit (11) connected to said preceding stage, a buffer (22) and an amplification section (12) connected in series in the direct amplification line, a first amplifier (16), a RC network (17′) and a second amplifier (23) connected in series in a parallel loop between the outputs and the inputs of the amplification section that generate the feedback signal. The role of said buffer and second amplifier associated in a dedicated direct and feedback signal combining block (21) is to respectively isolate the input signal and the feedback signal from the summing nodes (A′,B′) at the amplification section inputs. As a result, the summation of the input signal and the feedback signal is improved, the DC component of the output signal is filtered out in order to significantly reduce the DC offset. In addition, the input impedance matching represented by parameter S11 is considerably improved.
摘要:
A non-integer fractional divider divides a reference clock signal having period P by a non-integer ratio K. The divider includes multiplexers to receive a plurality N of clock signals wherein each clock signal is equally phase shifted by a P/N delay. Incrementers coupled to the multiplexers select first and second clock signals between the N clock signals. Such that the phase shift delay between the two selected clock signals is representative of the non-integer value of K. The selected clock signals are combined to output a divided clock signal. The enabling time of each selected clock signal is respectively representative of the duration of the low level and the high level of the divided clock signal.