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7633344 Low noise amplifier and differential amplifier  
In a double-loop negative feedback low noise amplifier having double negative feedback paths by a feedback transformer and a feedback resistor added to a cascode amplifier comprising transistors...
7629851 High frequency power amplifier circuit and electronic component for high frequency power amplifier  
In a high frequency power amplifier circuit that supplies a bias to an amplifying FET by a current mirror method, scattering of a threshold voltage Vth due to the scattering of the channel impurity...
7629853 Amplifying apparatus and bias stabilization circuit  
An amplifying apparatus including an amplifier having a first FET, a second FET having a source connected to a drain of the first FET, a load resistance connected to a drain of the second FET, a...
7619482 Compact low voltage low noise amplifier  
An apparatus comprising a first stage and a second stage. The first stage generally comprises a first transistor configured as a common-emitter amplifier. The second stage generally comprises a...
7598814 Method and apparatus for an LNA with high linearity and improved gain control  
A low noise amplifier (LNA) circuit includes a linear input stage including a first circuit that generates an output current and has a low input impedance. A device receives an input signal,...
7598813 Radio frequency amplifier with constant gain setting  
Radio frequency amplifier with constant gain setting. A circuitry that includes triple well connected MOSFETs is employed to eliminate body effects therein. The voltage gain as presented herein,...
7598810 Power amplifier having input ends combined in series and output ends combined in series  
A power amplifier includes a first transformer, a first transistor, a first resistor, a second transformer, a second transistor, a second resistor, and a bias circuit. The first transformer drives...
7592872 Differential amplifier with single ended output  
Various embodiments for converting a differential signal to a single ended signal are disclosed. The embodiments comprise a transistor pair for receiving a differential signal; and a tank circuit...
7589593 Amplifier circuit having stacked main amplifier and parallel sub-amplifier  
An amplifier circuit for amplifying an input signal to generate an output signal is provided. The amplifier circuit has a stacked main amplifier, a parallel sub-amplifier, and a signal combiner....
7586375 Active circuit having improved linearity using multiple gated transistor  
The present invention relates to improved linearity of an active circuit, and more particularly, to an active circuit having improved linearity using a main circuit unit and an assistant circuit...
7576613 Regulated cascode circuits and CMOS analog circuits including the same  
A regulated cascode circuit includes a first MOS transistor of a first conductive type, a second MOS transistor of the first conductive type, a third MOS transistor of a second conductive type, a...
7570119 Cascode-connected amplifier circuit, semiconductor integrated circuit using same, and receiving apparatus using same  
A cascode-connected amplifier circuit including two transistors cascode-connected to each other, where a first transistor having a grounded emitter or a first field-effect transistor having a...
7560994 Systems and methods for cascode switching power amplifiers  
Example embodiments of the invention may provide systems and methods for a power amplifier. The systems and methods may include a first common-source device having a first source, a first gate, a...
7555263 Adaptive radio transceiver  
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention described and shown in the specification and drawings is a transceiver with a receiver, a transmitter, a local oscillator (LO) generator, a...
7551035 Fast converter for crossing voltage domains  
A voltage domain crossing circuit and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, the voltage domain crossing circuit comprises an AC coupling component, a DC biasing component and a high voltage...
7551036 Power amplifier for amplifying high-frequency (H.F.) signals  
An H.F. power amplifier is disclosed having a plurality of branches ( 10, 11, 12 ) switched in parallel. Each branch comprises a plurality of amplifier elements (T 1 , T 4 ) switched in series....
7545221 Signal amplifying apparatus including I/O devices and core devices  
The present invention provides a signal amplifying apparatus, for converting a first input signal into a first output signal. The signal amplifying apparatus includes an input stage circuit for...
7541876 Amplifier and method for operating the same  
An amplifier includes an input terminal, an output terminal, a cascode circuit with a first and a second transistor serially coupled between an output terminal and a terminal of a predefined...
7541875 High-linearity low noise amplifier and method  
Embodiments of a high-linearity low-noise amplifier (LNA) and method are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, an RF input signal may be...
7511578 Stacked RF power amplifier  
A method and apparatus provides techniques for electrically isolating switching devices in a stacked RF power amplifier, which prevents the switching devices from being subjected to high breakdown...
7489200 Gain controllable low noise amplifier and wireless communication receiver having the same  
A gain controllable wide-band low noise amplifier includes a first transistor coupled to an input node and an output node and amplifying an input signal to generate an output signal, a second...
7489201 Millimeter-wave cascode amplifier gain boosting technique  
Disclosed is a gain boosting technique for use with millimeter-wave cascode amplifiers. The exemplary technique may be implemented using a 0.18 μm SiGe process (F T =140 GHz). It has also been...
7489187 Operational amplifier and related noise separation method thereof  
An amplifier includes: an input stage for receiving an input signal to generate a first signal corresponding to a first band; a first modulator coupled to the input stage for modulating the first...
7489202 RF amplifier with stacked transistors, transmitting device, and method therefor  
An RF transmitting device ( 10 ) includes an RF amplifier ( 22 ) formed having components formed on a common semiconductor substrate ( 14 ). RF amplifier ( 22 ) includes MOS transistors ( 42 ) and...
7482879 Variable gain amplifier and communication apparatus  
A variable gain amplifier is provided that can obtain a wide range of gain variation and suppress the deterioration of linearity when switching between amplifying transistors. The variable gain...
7479830 Differential amplifier using body-source cross coupling  
Disclosed herein is a differential amplifier using body-source cross coupling. In a common gate differential amplifier in which common gate amplifiers are implemented in a differential structure,...
7477106 Power amplifier with bias control  
A power amplifier ( 100 ) suitable for use in mobile telecommunications equipment has a first stage ( 2 ) and an optional second stage ( 2 ), each stage being provided with a bias circuit ( 4, 5 )....
7474155 Power amplifier  
A power amplifier includes a front-stage amplifier including first and second transistors connected in parallel, and a rear-stage amplifier including a third transistor. The first transistor is...
7474158 Dynamic match low noise amplifier with reduced current consumption in low gain mode  
The present invention is a dual mode LNA that can operate in either normal mode or low-gain mode, which has been designed to maintain a constant input impedance when switching between the two modes...
7468634 Apparatus for converting single-ended signal into differential signal  
The present invention discloses a single-ended input/differential output amplifier includes a first bonding wire, a transduction gain circuit coupled to the first bonding wire for receiving an...
7466206 Amplifier circuit  
Amplifier circuit for amplifying an input signal, having a vertically integrated cascode that has a collector semiconductor region of a collector, adjacent to the collector semiconductor region, a...
7463093 Variable gain amplifier  
A variable gain amplifier includes multiple gain stages. Each gain stage includes a gain transistor and a cascode transistor to form a cascode amplifier, and a current diversion transistor to...
7456691 Amplifier circuit with reduced temperature dependence of the gain  
An amplifier circuit includes an amplifier input, an amplifier output, a control terminal for adjusting a gain of the amplifier circuit, and a feedback path between the amplifier output and the...
7456689 Amplifier circuit and gain control method thereof  
An amplifier circuit is provided with a control section that respectively selectively supplies either a second voltage or a third voltage to gates of a plurality of second transistors and gates of...
7446613 Power amplifier input structure having a differential output  
A method and apparatus provides an input structure for a power amplifier. In one example, the input structure has an input network and a predriver circuit to provide an input signal to the power...
7446606 Methods and apparatus to provide slew enhancement for low power amplifiers  
Methods and apparatus to provide increased current to a cascode amplifier to maximize slew rate are disclosed. The amplifier has a first input coupled to an input switch and a load circuit for...
7443245 High frequency power amplifier circuit and electronic component for high frequency power amplifier  
In a high frequency power amplifier circuit that supplies a bias to an amplifying FET by a current mirror method, scattering of a threshold voltage Vth due to the scattering of the channel impurity...
7432767 Tunable low noise amplifier  
Tunable low noise amplifier using an RF current feed back loop (L) coupled between input (IM) and output (OM) means and including first (CAI) and second (CA 2 ) serially coupled first order lowpass...
7427898 Detecting amplifier out-of-range conditions  
Out-of-range conditions are detected in amplifier CMOS or BiCMOS circuitry that includes a control transistor (M S ) connected in series with a cascode transistor (M SC ), and a differential...
7421254 High linearity, high efficiency power amplifier with DSP assisted linearity optimization  
A communications transceiver includes a baseband processor, a receiver section, and a transmitter section that includes a power amplifier. The receiver and transmitter sections communicatively...
7420420 FET bias circuit  
The present invention discloses an FET (Field Effect Transistor) bias circuit comprising a current-changing information circuit having a power source, a resistor connected to the signal output end...
7420425 Power amplifier and method thereof  
A power amplifier amplifying an input signal to generate an output signal, comprising a cascode unit and a bias circuit. The cascode unit comprises a cascode stage, a first input stage, and a...
7417575 High-bandwidth high-gain amplifier  
A pipelined analog to digital converter comprises a first stage that receives an input voltage, that generates a first sampled digital value and a first residue voltage, and that includes a first...
7414481 Receiver with colpitts differential oscillator, colpitts quadrature oscillator, and common-gate low noise amplifier  
Embodiments of the present invention include a common-gate amplifier having an input terminal and an output terminal, a transistor having a source, a drain, and a gate, four inductors, and two...
7411454 Electron turbulence damping circuit for a complimentary-symmetry amplification unit  
An electron turbulence damping circuit ( 40 ) for a complimentary-symmetry unit ( 10 ′) includes a first output device ( 12 ′) having a first conductivity and a second output device ( 14 ′)...
7400198 Active circuit having improved linearity using multiple gated transistor  
The present invention relates to improved linearity of an active circuit, and more particularly, to an active circuit having improved linearity using a main circuit unit and an assistant circuit...
7397309 Bias circuit for a wideband amplifier driven with low voltage  
An amplifier includes a ground, first and second MOS transistors, a first resistive load and a supply voltage, which are connected in series in this order. A bias circuit provides first and second...
7391269 Amplifying circuit  
The invention provides an amplifying circuit for reducing electric power consumption at a standby mode time. Therefore, in DMOS and NMOS transistors constituting a cascode amplifier, the gate of...
7378912 Cascode connection circuit  
A cascode connection circuit includes a first field effect transistor (FET) which has a source terminal and a drain terminal, the source terminal being connected to ground; a second FET which has a...
7378910 Power amplifier for a transmitter  
A power amplifier for a transmitter includes a plurality of CMOS amplifiers of different types which are serially and alternately connected, and matching circuits for matching impedance...