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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,...
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...
6741134 DC feedback control circuit  
A DC feedback control circuit for compensating for a DC voltage level shift in a transimpedance amplifier circuit having a transistor as a high speed switching device. The DC feedback control...
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...
6734737 Output distortion correction amplifier system  
An output distortion correction amplifier system includes an input stage; a current mirror connected to the input stage; an output stage having its input connected to the input stage and a current...
6731159 Mirroring circuit for operation at high frequencies  
A mirroring circuit operating at high frequencies is provided. The mirroring circuit includes a first branch having a first transistor in series with a first resistor, a second branch having a...
6731165 Electronic amplifier  
An amplifier that accurately amplifies signals over a wide bandwidth, including DC, has a voltage-to-current converter, a feed-forward resistive element, a buffer, an input resistive element, a...
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...
6720817 All NPN class-AB log-domain integrator with supporting input and output circuitry for low-voltage and high-frequency continuous-time filtering  
Two variations of a continuous-time instantaneous companding filter are integrated in a 25 GHz bipolar process. Their −3 dB frequencies are tunable in the ranges of 1-30 MHz and 30-100 MHz. The...
6717466 Comparator  
A comparator includes a differential amplifier stage comprising two emitter-interconnected bipolar transistors whose bases form the two inputs of the comparator, a first load element connected to...
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...
6714074 Power amplifier clipping circuit for minimizing output distortion  
A power amplifier clipping circuit prevents sudden output changes when clipped from excessive input voltage, and includes an input voltage divider, two bias transistors connected to a positive...
6710655 Bipolar emitter couple pair transconductor for high speed operational amplifiers  
An emitter coupled pair transconductor circuit includes: an emitter couple pair 20 and 21 ; and a tail current source coupled to the emitter couple pair wherein the tail current source provides...
6710661 Low input impedance with amplifier  
The present invention relates to an amplifier CD including a first and a second transistor T 1 and T 2 , connected in series between a power supply terminal VCC and ground terminal. According to...
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...
6704560 Low-voltage transconductance amplifier/filters  
Wireless communications devices must handle a wide range of useful signal levels and must also cope with large interfering signals of nearby frequencies. They often use transconductance...
6680651 Current mirror and differential amplifier for providing large current ratio and high output impedence  
A current mirror for providing a large current ratio and a high output impedance even in radio frequency operation and a differential amplifier including the same are provided. The current mirror...
6664857 Two-stage operational amplifier  
A two-stage operational amplifier has an input stage and a downstream output stage. In this configuration, the magnitude of a first supply potential which supplies the input stage and is provided...
6664854 Base band filter including a semiconductor integrated circuit  
When an input signal to be amplified is very small and a large blocking signal having a high frequency is included in an input, it is necessary for a filter for mobile communication for removing...
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...
6653894 Integrated current mirror in output stage of operational amplifier  
A current mirror configuration can be integrated in the output stage of an operational amplifier that enables rail-to-rail performance without requiring a significant increase in headroom. The...
6650183 Amplifier apparatus for an output stage of a laser driver circuit  
Known differential pair amplifier circuits can suffer from transistor saturation resulting in a reduction in switching speed. An alternative to the differential pair amplifier circuit is a...
6642793 Differential current mirror system and method  
There is disclosed a differential current mirror system and method for providing differential output current signals that are proportional to differential input current signals in which common mode...
6642792 Signal amplification device with circuit maintaining potential of input side of current mirror circuit at predetermined value  
A differential amplifier circuit section ( 10 ), which realizes a reduction in power consumption of a signal amplification device, converts an input voltage signal into a current signal and then...
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...
6621259 Current sense amplifier and method  
A current sense amplifier ( 10 ) for measuring current flowing through a sense resistor ( 12 ) coupled between first ( 11 ) and second ( 13 ) terminals, respectively, of the current sense...
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...
6614302 CMOS operational amplifier circuit  
A CMOS operational amplification circuit is provided with a first differential amplifier having differential MOS transistors of one of P channel and N channel which receive an input signal; a...
6600372 Attenuator control circuit  
An attenuator control circuit for controlling operation of a differential pair attenuator to provide linear in decibels (dB) operation and temperature and process-independent operation. The...
6600371 Low noise amplifier  
It is shown a low noise amplifier comprising a first circuit block suitable for converting a first amplifier input voltage signal into current, a second circuit block adapted to divide the current...
6590452 High DC gain cascode amplifier stage with low noise performance  
A cascode stage includes a gain boost circuit arrangement in a folded cascode type of operational amplifier. The gain boost circuit arrangement improves the overall DC gain of the operational...
6590433 Reduced power consumption bi-directional buffer  
A bi-directional buffer includes the capability to turn the current mirror off when the bi-directional buffer is in the receive mode and quickly turn the current mirror on when the bi-directional...
6590454 System and method for current splitting for variable gain control  
There is disclosed a system and method for current splitting for variable gain control. The system comprises a current splitting circuit that splits an input current into a first current portion...
6586997 Input distortion correction current-feedback amplifier system  
An input distortion correction current-feedback amplifier system includes a current mirror; an input stage connected to the input of the current mirror; an output stage connected to the output of...
6586995 Amplifier  
An amplifier includes a first voltage follower including P-type MOS transistors and a second voltage follower including N-type MOS transistors. The first voltage follower amplifies without being...
6586990 Operational amplifier having offset cancel function  
An operational amplifier, which generates an output voltage at an output terminal that is equal to an input voltage, comprises: a differential circuit, which compares the input voltage and the...
6580326 High-bandwidth low-voltage gain cell and voltage follower having an enhanced transconductance  
A voltage buffer and follower includes a single ended output, a source follower, and a current feedback loop. The current feedback loop is coupled to the source follower and to the single ended...
6566955 High bandwidth transresistance amplifier  
An improved transresistance amplifier for generating an output voltage from an input current includes: a current buffer for shifting a dominant pole associated with the input current to a higher...
6566951 Low voltage variable gain amplifier having constant common mode DC output  
A variable gain amplifier includes a differential transconductor, a differential gain stage, a DC compensation circuit and first and second load resistors. The differential transconductor has first...
6566961 Wide-band single-ended to differential converter in CMOS technology  
A wide-band single-ended to differential converter (DC to 1 GHz) with very low amplitude and phase matching errors, of the order of 0.01 dB and 0.15 degrees respectively and using CMOS technology,...
6552613 Output stage amplifier with compensation circuitry  
An output stage amplifier circuit in accordance with the present invention overcomes many shortcomings of the prior art. A output stage amplifier circuit for providing a high output voltage and...
6549070 High gain amplifier with current limited positive feedback  
A high gain amplifier includes an intermediate gain stage; an output gain stage driven by the intermediate gain stage; an input stage, for driving the intermediate gain stage, which is balanced...
6549072 Operational amplifier having improved input offset performance  
A low-power operational amplifier comprises a differential input-stage and an output stage. The differential input-stage includes first and second differentially coupled input transistors each...
6542030 Amplifier with stabilization means  
An amplifier comprising an input stage (IP ST ) having a pair of inputs (INN,INI) for receiving a differential input signal (V in ) and a pair of outputs (CQ 6 ,CQ 7 ) for delivering a differential...
6538503 Instrumentation amplifier and method for obtaining high common mode rejection  
An instrumentation amplifier is provided which can provide high common mode rejection without the use of precision resistors. The instrumentation amplifier can be configured in an 8-pin layout,...
6535061 Configurable operational amplifier as a microcontroller peripheral  
A configurable operational amplifier which is programmed to specific characteristics and parameters for various requirements in the measurement of analog signals. These programmable characteristics...
6531922 DC-coupling approach for current mode circuits  
The present invention is directed to advantages discovered in connection with controlling DC current passing between and adversely affecting cascaded current-mode blocks. According to a particular...
6529076 Fast saturation recovery operational amplifier input stage  
An operational amplifier input stage includes a first differential input transistor and a second differential input transistor receiving a differential input voltage. A first translinear loop is...
6525608 High gain, high bandwidth, fully differential amplifier  
A differential-input, differential-output CMOS amplifier having a first differential pair with a first transistor folded with a first cascode transistor, and a second differential pair with a first...