Abstract:
A relatively small value of current is obtained in an integrated circuit by separating a larger current into two or more parts. The circuit includes two transistors and at least two strings of the same number of series connected diodes. Currents in a fixed ratio to one another are applied in the forward direction to the two strings of diodes and the voltages thereby obtained are applied to the respective base electrodes of the transistors. The larger current is applied in parallel to the emitter-to-collector paths of the two transistors and that part of this current which passes through the one of the transistors drawing the smaller of the two currents, is the current of interest.
Abstract:
A trigger circuit is disclosed of a type which can be constructed using integrated, semiconductor chip technology and which includes a thresholding circuit arranged to fix the triggering voltages thereof, whereby a large number of trigger circuits having uniform triggering voltages from chip-to-chip may be produced.
Abstract:
The emitter current supplied from a transistor is maintained proportionally related by a factor k to current withdrawn from a first resistive network. This is done by applying the collector current of the transistor to a second resistive network having a current-versus-voltage characteristic proportionally related by the factor k to that of the first resistive network, comparing the potentials developed across the first and the second resistive networks in a differential amplifier to develop and to amplify an error signal, and then applying the amplified error signal to the base electrode of the transistor so as to degenerate error signal.
Abstract:
Current-mode biasing of the base electrode of a collector-loaded amplifier transistor is accomplished without suffering quiescent collector potential variations caused by variations in its common-emitter forward current gain (hfe). To do this, collector and base currents in the ratio of ffe to 1 are impressed upon the transistor from a current supply, wherein the ratio is determined. The quiescent collector potential of the transistor is then determined by the connections of the collector load and is independent of the collector current of the transistor and its attendant variations due to hfe changes.
Abstract:
A high-input-impedance transistor amplifiers, requiring no highresistance resistors, is useful in integrated circuitry. A negative feedback circuit splits a quiescent current into first and second portions in the ratio of the collector and base currents of an amplifier transistor. The first portion is supplied to the collector electrode of the amplifier transistor and the second portion is supplied to the emitter electrode of a complementary transistor and thence from the collector electrode of said complementary transistor to the base electrode of the amplifier transistor. The quiescent collector voltage of the amplifier transistor is stably maintained despite the highimpedance biasing of its base electrode.
Abstract:
An input current is applied to a ladder network comprising diode-connected-transistor shunt legs and resistive series arms. The network derives from the input current a bias current having an amplitude which is a fraction of the input current and supplies that bias current to the base-emitter junction of an amplifier transistor.
Abstract:
Complementary transistors, each connected at its base to an input terminal and the collector of the other and one connected at its emitter to an operating voltage source. The other emitter is connected to ground through a controllable impedance and its value controls the circuit operation. It determines whether a path between one of the input terminals and ground will be open and permit the circuit to latch or will close, and if closed, whether the additional path will cause the circuit to remain latched and limit to a given maximum value the load current or will cause the circuit to unlatch.
Abstract:
A circuit for establishing the quiescent bias current of a differential amplifier with active collector loads (transistor loads). The collector current of an auxiliary transistor, held at the same base-emitter potential as the active loads, is applied to the input circuit of a current amplifier which supplies from its output circuit the combined emitter currents of the differential amplifier transistors. The base currents of the auxiliary transistor and of the active load transistors are decoupled from the input circuit of the current amplifier so that variations in such currents do not affect the quiescent biasing of the differential amplifier.
Abstract:
A dead-zone comparator includes first and second voltage comparators used respectively to compare an input signal to a high reference level and to a low reference level, which reference levels can be programmed. A bistable memory element is set by the output signal of one comparator and reset by the output signal of the other. These SET and RESET signals are opposite polarity currents, one of which is more severely constrained in value than the other, and are applied via a common SET-RESET buss to the memory element. When the memory element is in its SET condition, a relaxation oscillator is permitted to deliver output pulses of sufficient magnitude to trigger SCR''s or triacs directly. When the memory element is in its RESET condition, the relaxation oscillator is prevented from furnishing any output pulses.
Abstract:
A first grounded-emitter amplifier transistor is followed in direct coupled cascade by a second grounded-emitter amplifier transistor. The first grounded-emitter transistor has directcoupled collector-to-base negative feedback to regulate its collector current to be proportional to applied input current. The direct-coupled feedback includes means to regulate the collector-to-base potential of said first transistor to be proportional to the logarithm of the applied input current. The collector current of the second transistor is thereby in fixed proportion to the applied input current and independent of the forward current gain of the transistors.