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5889432 Two-stage differential microwave amplifier with bias current sharing and automatic gain control  
A multi-stage differential amplifier includes first and second DC current paths with first and second stage amplification transistors included in each current path so that both stages share the...
5886578 Differential amplifier including bias circuit with bias resistor  
A differential amplifier receiving a first input signal and a second input signal, respectively, and amplifying voltage difference between the first and second input signals to output an output...
5886579 Variable gain CMOS amplifier  
A variable gain amplifier includes an input transconductor having a transconductance that is variable in response to a first control signal, an output circuit having a transresistance that is...
5880627 Low power op-amp circuit with boosted bandwidth  
A low-power op-amp circuit (70) having boosted bandwidth comprises a DC circuit block (72) which is coupled to first (V DC +, V DC +, V AC +) and second (V DC -, V AC ) input nodes and to an...
5880638 Rail-to-rail operational amplifier and method for making same  
Disclosed is an operational amplifier having a positive input terminal, a negative input terminal, an output terminal, a positive power supply input and a negative power supply input. The...
5880637 Low-power operational amplifier having fast setting time and high voltage gain suitable for use in sampled data systems  
An operational amplifier includes a differential amplifier including a first transistor (120) and a second transistor (122), a gain stage (125), a first folded cascode stage (104) and a second...
5874840 Differential source follower with body effect compensation  
An improved differential source follower with negligible input/output mismatch over a wide range of input signal magnitudes. A pair of FETs and current sources provides bias current control for...
5872482 Amplifier circuit having a pair of differential transistors with differing threshold values for perform offset compensation  
An amplifier circuit for analog-signal processing has an operational amplifier having an output, an inverting input, and supply inputs for accepting a single supply potential and a reference...
5869999 Open loop pre-amplifier for an electronic measuring system  
A fast, open-loop amplifier for an electronic measuring system is formed by a folded, differential, open-loop amplifier. This amplifier includes a differential common-source portion, a current...
5864254 Differential amplifier circuit with enlarged range for source voltage and semiconductor device using same  
A differential amplifier circuit includes a differential amplifier having inversion and non-inversion input terminals and input amplifiers each individually connected to one of these input...
5864257 Replica bias circuit to optimize swing of differential op-amp  
A replica circuit derived from the bias generating circuit for an amplifier. The replica circuit duplicates the operating point of the op-amp transistors, and generates two reference voltages. The...
5854574 Reference buffer with multiple gain stages for large, controlled effective transconductance  
A reference buffer suitable for driving switched-capacitor or resistive load circuits provides a very low output impedance. The reference buffer utilizes an amplifier with a very large and...
RE36013 Differential charge pump circuit with high differential and low common mode impedance  
A high gain, low voltage differential amplifier exhibiting extremely low common mode sensitivities includes a load element exhibiting a high differential resistance, but a low common mode...
5847606 Low voltage CMOS amplifier output stage  
A CMOS amplifier output stage including a complementary output MOSFET transistor pair whose channels are connected together in series between a supply voltage and a reference potential, and whose...
5847600 Multi-stage high-gain high-speed amplifier  
A two-stage switched-capacitor residue amplifier having novel circuitry in the first and second stages provides fast and accurate settling while configured with a large closed-loop gain, and also...
5847598 Differential amplifier  
This invention is directed to providing a differential amplifier that can increase voltage gain at low frequency and that can be applied in signal processing circuits of high accuracy. Such a...
5841317 Differential amplifier circuit with a high through put rate and reduced power consumption  
A differential amplifier achieving a high throughput rate with reduced power consumption includes a differential circuit, output circuit, a constant current source transistor, a drive transistor,...
5838200 Differential amplifier with switched capacitor common mode feedback  
A differential amplifier with switched capacitor common mode feedback includes a differential telescopic cascode amplifier in which the differential output terminals are individually coupled to a...
5834974 Differential amplifier with reduced current consumption  
A differential amplifier comprising a first NMOS transistor having its gate for receiving a first input signal, a second NMOS transistor having its gate for receiving a second input signal, a first...
5831480 Operational amplifier adopted for input and output in wide ranges for driving a large load  
An operational amplifier comprises an input stage, an output stage, and an intermediate circuitry connected between the input stage and the output stage. The operational amplifier may be biased...
5825244 Low power class AB integrated circuit amplifier having improved linearity when driving high impedance loads  
An amplifier circuit having four variable impedance nodes is provided. The amplifier has split transconductance current paths. Each half of the amplifier has two such current paths and each current...
5825245 Compound cascode amplifier  
A compound cascode amplifier comprising first and second FET input transistors, the gates of which are coupled to a differential input, and first and second FET cascode transistors. The sources of...
5821809 CMOS high-speed differential to single-ended converter circuit  
A CMOS differential to single-ended converter is implemented. A differential input stage comprised of a pair of N-channel transistors draws current through two fixed current P-channel load...
5818295 Operational amplifier with stabilized DC operations  
An operational amplifier with improved operational speed, as well as low power consumption, arranges a current mirror made of the pMOS transistors PT 17 and PT 18 in the stage after the...
5812022 Differential amplifier circuit having low noise input transistors  
A differential amplifier circuit whose noise is reduced when used in a CMOS operational amplifier without increasing its cost includes a differential input stage circuit in which gate lengths of...
5812027 Spike insensitive intermediate frequency amplifier  
The intermediate frequency (IF) amplifier (10) of the invention comprises a differential stage (40) having transistors (41, 42) serially coupled to inductive loads (31, 32). There is only one point...
5808513 Rail-to-rail input common mode range differential amplifier that operates with very low rail-to-rail voltages  
A rail-to-rail input common mode range differential amplifier operates on rail-to-rail voltages down to approximately one volt by utilizing one p-channel transistor to cover a first portion of the...
5805021 High swing low power general purpose operational amplifier  
An operational amplifier circuit is provided which includes: 1) a first folded-cascode gain stage having a differential pair of natural V T devices which are P-channel transistors; 2) a second...
5789981 High-gain operational transconductance amplifier offering improved bandwidth  
A high-gain, low-power transconductance amplifier suitable for use in switched-capacitor circuits provides improved accuracy and high-speed operation. The transconductance amplifier includes an...
5789980 Amplifier and semiconductor device which are operated at a low voltage  
An amplifier and a semiconductor device according to the present invention are operated at a low voltage and decreased in size and problems such as a noise and an oscillation phenomenon. The...
5777514 Differential to single ended conversion technique for an operational amplifier having low input offset voltage, high speed and high gain  
An operational amplifier having an input and an output stage. The input stage includes first and second source-coupled NMOS input transistors for accepting a differential input voltage and first...
5760647 High bandwidth fast settling time operational amplifier and method therefor  
A wide bandwidth fast settling operational amplifier (71) comprises a first stage (72) and a second stage (73). The first stage attenuates a differential input signal applied to the operational...
5751186 Operational amplifier circuit with an extended input voltage range  
An operational amplifier circuit 21 comprises transistors N14, N15 in a first output amplifier circuit 24, and transistors P24, P25 in a second output amplifier circuit 25. When a second...
5748041 AGC amplifier circuit using triple-tail cell  
At AGC amplifier circuit having a triple-tail cell including first, second and, third transistors whose emitter or sources are coupled together. The first and second transistors form a differential...
5748040 Fully differential high gain cascode amplifier  
A very high gain cascode amplifier includes a cascoded differential structure wherein a cascoded N-channel leg comprised of two series connected transistors (56) and (58) are connected between an...
5745007 CMOS differential amplifier having constant transconductance and slew rate  
An amplifier, particularly a CMOS amplifier has a differential input which is fed to six differential pairs. The outputs of the first and third differential pair are combined and fed to inputs of a...
5739722 Low-voltage rail-to-rail operational amplifier  
The op-amp circuit described herein utilizes current summing to substantially eliminate cross-over distortion. Therefore, the op-amp circuit is characterized by linearity over the operable voltage...
5739721 High swing, low power output stage for an operational amplifier  
A high swing, low power output stage for an operational amplifier is provided which includes: 1) a folded-cascode gain stage having a differential pair of natural V T devices, which are preferably...
5736871 Differential pair input buffer circuit with a variable current source  
In an input buffer circuit for use in a semiconductor integrated circuit, comprising a differential pair formed of a pair of MOS transistors and receiving a reference voltage and an input signal...
5736885 Offset adjustment for fully differential amplifiers  
A circuit for providing an input offset voltage to balance a fully differential amplifier may include two field effect transistors (FETs) in parallel conductive paths for receiving a current, an...
5734297 Rail-to-rail input stages with constant g.sub.m and constant common-mode output currents  
A rail-to-rail input stage with constant g m and constant common-mode output currents is provided. The common-mode output currents are controlled by the use of current switches. When low and high...
5734298 FET amplifying circuit which can improve low-consumptive current  
An amplifying circuit is suitable for an integrated circuit that has a characteristic of low-noise, high-gain, and low-consumptive current. In the circuit, transistors or FETs are used as...
5734296 Low voltage operational amplifier input stage and method  
Low voltage operational amplifier (10) operates in a voltage range of one to eight volts over a temperature range of 0° to 70° centigrade. Op amp input stage (12) uses N-channel depletion-mode...
5731739 Class A operational amplifier with area efficient MOS capacitor frequency compensation  
An operational amplifier with MOSFET's configured as capacitors provide frequency compensation over a large range of input frequencies is described. The operational amplifier has an differential...
5729178 Fully differential folded cascode CMOS operational amplifier having adaptive biasing and common mode feedback circuits  
An adaptive biasing circuit is combined to a fully differential cascode operational amplifier ("OP AMP") to eliminate the effect of a slew rate, thereby increasing the operation speed of the OP AMP...
5722052 Switching current mirror for a phase locked loop frequency synthesizer and communication device using same  
A communication device (100) employs a local oscillator (104) having an improved charge pump circuit (122). The charge pump circuit (122) has current mirrors (204, 208) in which a first transistor...
5719529 Operational amplifier and digital signal transfer circuit  
An operational amplifier and a digital signal transfer circuit in which an output voltage does not decrease instantly even if an abrupt change of input signal due to noise causes a high-to-low...
5717360 High speed variable gain amplifier  
A MOSFET amplifier includes an amplifier stage with a boosted transconductance and a differential current mirror. The amplifier stage with a boosted transconductance includes complementary MOSFETs...
5714906 Constant transductance input stage and integrated circuit implementations thereof  
A low voltage constant transconductance input stage is achieved with relatively simple design methodology. The approach uses current-mode techniques and is based upon the processing of signal...
5712594 Operational transconductance amplifier operable at low supply voltage  
An OTA capable of low-voltage operation at a voltage as low as approximately 1 V while restraining the circuit scale increase and keeping approximately the same input voltage range as that of the...