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6753730 Differential amplifier and filter circuit using the same  
A differential amplifier is constructed in such a manner that a unit includes the sources of a first and a second MOS transistor and the drain of a third MOS transistor are connected to each other,...
6750704 Offset compensated differential amplifier  
A differential amplifier comprises a differential input stage including first and second input devices and has first and second input electrodes and first and second output terminals. A...
6750714 Opamp with infinite open loop gain  
An operational amplifier circuit connected to a bi-directional cascode current amplifier is disclosed. The operational amplifier uses the bi-directional cascode current amplifier to filter out the...
6747514 MOSFET amplifier with dynamically biased cascode output  
A metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) amplifier with dynamically biased cascode output circuitry in which the biasing of the cascode output circuitry dynamically tracks one...
6748204 Mixer noise reduction technique  
In accordance with the present invention a mixer circuit noise reduction technique is provided. The mixer circuit of the present invention includes a gain stage for receiving a first signal and...
6744319 Exponential function generator embodied by using a CMOS process and variable gain amplifier employing the same  
An exponential function generator embodied by a CMOS process and a variable gain amplifier (VGA) employing the same. Since it is difficult for CMOS devices to attain an exponential function by...
6744320 Variable transconductane variable gain amplifier utilizing a degenerated differential pair  
Continuously tuning a transconductance. Coupling a degeneration resistance from a first source of a first transistor in a differential pair of transistors to a second source of a second transistor...
6741130 High-speed output transconductance amplifier capable of operating at different voltage levels  
A high-speed output transconductance amplifier (OTA) capable of operating at different voltage levels. The high-speed output transconductance amplifier configures a cross-coupled circuit with...
6737919 Method and apparatus for calibrating a Gm cell utilizing a replica Gm cell  
A method and apparatus for calibrating a Gm cell using a Gm replica cell. A digital to analog converter receives a Gm setting code and generates a reference current. The Gm replica cell adjusts the...
6732337 Method and arrangement for testing the stability of a working point of a circuit  
A DC transfer curve of a circuit is determined for determining the global dynamics of a circuit and a stability analysis is conducted for points of the DC transfer curve. The results of the...
6731169 Differential amplifier circuit  
The first amplifier circuit D 1 is formed by connecting drains of a pair of N-channel MOS transistors forming the first current mirror circuit CM 1 respectively to the drains of P-channel MOS...
6727753 Operational transconductance amplifier for an output buffer  
An operational transconductance amplifier includes a differential amplification unit adapted to generate first and second output signals through respective first and second output nodes by...
6727757 Biasing circuit for transconductors  
A transconductor circuit, including a differential transconductor amplifier circuit. The transconductor circuit includes an input pair of transistors adapted to receive a differential input...
6724258 Highly-linear, wide-input-range, wide control-range, low-voltage differential voltage controlled transconductor  
A voltage controlled transconductor (VCT) for receiving a differential input signal comprising a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal, and for providing a differential output signal...
6724257 Error amplifier circuit  
An error amplifier circuit includes a differential amplifier with a cascode gain stage and an amplifier. The differential amplifier receives a first input signal and a second input signal and...
6720830 Low-power, differential optical receiver in silicon on insulator  
A low-power differential optical receiver useful for high-speed optical communication between CMOS chips includes a multi-stage differential amplifier circuit including a first differential...
6720832 System and method for converting from single-ended to differential signals  
A single-ended signal is converted to differential signals with a first device that converts an input current of a single-ended input signal to a voltage, a second device coupled to the first...
6717468 Dynamically biased full-swing operation amplifier for an active matrix liquid crystal display driver  
A versatile amplifier circuit for driving a TFT LCD panel is disclosed. The amplifier circuit of the present comprises consists of a complementary input stage, biasing switches, and a rail-to-rail...
6717467 Wideband differential amplifier comprising a high frequency gain-drop compensator device  
A wideband differential amplifier includes a first differential stage connected to a Miller stage allowing an open-loop gain increase. The Miller stage includes a current source and a...
6717474 High-speed differential to single-ended converter  
A differential to single-ended converter, which is composed of a transconductance amplifier, a current mirror and buffer circuit and a transimpedance stage, is disclosed. A differential voltage...
6714079 Differential amplifier with gain substantially independent of temperature  
A differential amplifier is described comprising an input branch for receiving differential and common mode input signal components; an output branch providing differential and common mode output...
RE38482 Delay stage circuitry for a ring oscillator  
A ring oscillator includes an even-numbered plurality of ring coupled delay stages. Each delay stage includes a differential amplifier, a voltage clamping circuit, and a current source. The...
6710667 Voltage controlled oscillator  
Resistance elements of a differential circuit is formed of a plurality of transistors and transistors which are biased into a linear region deeper than those of other transistors and have a small...
6710656 High gain amplifier circuits and their applications  
A high gain amplifier circuit includes two differential transistor pairs and a current generator coupled to each differential pair to control tail current. Each differential transistor pair has a...
6707336 Operational amplifier with chopped input transistor pair  
The invention relates to an operational amplifier comprising a first transistor amplifier stage at an input of the operational amplifier, which first transistor amplifier stage comprises chopped...
6703898 Differential amplifier comprising an unlocking device  
A differential amplifier may include a first stage including a first transistor and a second transistor having the same polarity and assembled to constitute a differential amplifier. The first...
6696869 Buffer circuit for a high-bandwidth analog to digital converter  
The present invention relates to improved ADC buffers and AFEs for high frequency applications, such as VDSL. The present invention can also be programmably configured for other xDSL applications....
6696894 Operational amplifier with independent input offset trim for high and low common mode input voltages  
An operational amplifier provides independent trimming of V os for both high and low common mode input voltages. The amplifier includes complementary input pairs, and employs a steering circuit...
6683497 MOS linear transconductance amplifier  
To provide a linear transconductance amplifier which is easily implemented with LSI and has a linear transconductance superior in a frequency characteristic. In a MOS linear transconductance...
6677822 Transconductor and filter circuit using the same  
A filter circuit is provided for suppressing an increase of circuit area, enabling easy circuit design, realizing a reduction of power consumption by a common control voltage operation, and able to...
6664853 Wide-bandwidth differential signal amplifier  
An impedance element connecting the outputs of two transistors of a wide-bandwidth amplifier forms a zero. The output of transistor is connected to a current source. The wide-bandwidth amplifier...
6664941 Amplifier circuit and liquid-crystal display unit using the same  
An amplifier circuit including an input stage and an output stage which are cascade-connected between a signal input terminal to which an input signal is input and a signal output terminal to which...
6661289 Voltage-to-current conversion circuit and OTA using the same  
A voltage-to-current conversion circuit composed of MOSFETs of the same polarity and an OTA with Rail-to-Rail with a simple configuration that uses the same have been disclosed. The...
6657486 MOS differential amplifier circuit having a wide linear input voltage range  
A MOS differential amplifier circuit has a differential pair having first and second MOS transistors. The source electrodes of the first and second MOS transistors are commonly coupled and driven...
6653900 Driving method and related apparatus for improving power efficiency of an operational transconductance amplifier  
A driving method for improving power efficiency of an operational transconductance amplifier. The operational transconductance amplifier comprises a first current route and a second current route...
6642788 Differential cascode amplifier  
A differential amplifier amplifies input signals and includes first and second differential input transistor pairs. The first input pair controls output voltages by adjusting sink currents coupled...
6642789 Operational amplifier input stage and method  
A precision operational amplifier operating in single supply mode, including a single differential transistor input pair and a cascoded CMOS transistor pair, stabilizes the drain-to-source voltage...
6642790 Differential, complementary amplifier  
A differential amplifier has two amplifier paths. The second amplifier path is operated in the opposite direction relative to the first amplifier path. The outputs of the two amplifier paths form a...
6642791 Self-biased amplifier circuit and method for self-basing amplifier circuit  
An amplifier circuit includes a first input device coupled to a first input node and controlling a first current, a second input device coupled to a second input node and controlling a second...
6639431 Differential input comparator  
A comparator circuit is disclosed that senses a differential input polarity even when operating with a common mode voltage near the power rails (e.g., 50 millivolts) and under a wide range of...
6628168 Multiple input, fully differential, wide common-mode, folded-cascode amplifier  
A multiple input, fully differential amplifier. Embodiments make use of complementary differential transistors pairs connected with cascode transistors to form folded cascode pairs, to achieve wide...
6624696 Apparatus and method for a compact class AB turn-around stage with low noise, low offset, and low power consumption  
A turn-around stage is provided that accepts the full current swing from an input stage while maintaining a low quiescent current. The circuitry provides Class AB operation with quiescent currents...
6624697 High frequency differential amplifier  
The present invention relates to a folded differential amplifier having very high output impedance capable of being operated at frequencies of the order of gigahertz.
6624698 Low-voltage, broadband operational amplifier  
A low voltage, broadband differential operational amplifier which eliminates the long tail current source from the amplifier, thereby relieving the headroom requirements by a few tenths of a volt....
6621342 Dynamic cascoding technique for operational amplifiers  
An apparatus for a differential amplifier with dynamic cascodes. The apparatus of one embodiment comprises a dynamic cascode bias generator. A first and second cascode transistors are coupled to...
6617921 High output swing comparator stage  
A circuit and method is provided that provides an amplification stage to a comparator device that matches transistor transconductances to provide adequate amplification and employs diode coupled...
6617922 Differential difference amplifier for amplifying small signals close to zero volts  
A differential difference amplifier is provided for amplifying an input signal having a magnitude close to zero (or a negative supply voltage) and adding an offset voltage to the amplified input...
6617925 Method and apparatus for gain compensation and control in low voltage differential signaling applications  
A low voltage differential signaling receiver includes a gain compensation and control circuit having a low common mode compensation circuit and a high common mode compensation circuit. A control...
6617923 Linear transconductance amplifier  
A linear transconductance amplifier which is easily implemented with LSI and superior in a frequency characteristic. The linear transconductance amplifier includes N-channel MOS transistors M 1, M...
6617926 Tail current node equalization for a variable offset amplifier  
First and second differential transistor pairs, where each may be intentionally unbalanced or balanced, are provided. First and second variable current generators are coupled to control respective...