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6333673 Electronic circuit  
A switched capacitor anplifier circuit is provided with two independent reference voltages, one which provides an appropriate bias level for the amplifiers, and one which sets a common mode input...
6329876 Noise reduction scheme for operational amplifiers  
Methods and apparatus are described for generating or amplifying a differential signal. The output of a first op amp corresponds to one end of the differential signal. The output of a second op amp...
6316992 DC offset calibration for a digital switching amplifier  
An offset voltage calibration circuit for use with a digital switching amplifier. The calibration circuit includes an analog-to-digital converter for converting at least one DC offset voltage...
6310515 CMOS track and hold amplifier  
A switched Capacitor Track and Hold Amplifier having at least one signal input, at least one clock input and an output, comprising a sampling capacitor, a buffer amplifier connected between the...
6310514 Amplifier that indicates its degree of calibration  
An amplifier includes a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit, in a first mode of the amplifier, amplifies an input signal to produce a first output signal. The second circuit is...
6307430 Noise reduction technique in chopper stabilized amplifier  
Disclosed is a chopper-stabilized amplifier with current steering used as output switching and to be operated in a low power supply voltage environment.
6300824 Analog offset cancellation method and circuit and amplifier using such circuit  
An analog offset cancellation technique is based on the observation that the voltage developed across an inductor is proportional to the time derivative of the current passing through the inductor....
6300805 Circuit for auto-zeroing a high impedance CMOS current driver  
An improved auto-zeroing circuit for reducing offset currents from high impedance CMOS current drivers. The Auto zero circuit of the present invention contains means to disconnect the output of the...
6292052 Output amplifier for a discrete filter-less optical reference receiver  
An output amplifier for a strobed sampling circuit has first and second operational amplifiers coupled to receive the sampled output from the sampling circuit. The operational amplifiers each have...
6288604 CMOS amplifier providing automatic offset cancellation  
An amplifier circuit is responsive to an input data signal which is substantially DC balanced. The amplifier circuit is operative to generate an amplified data signal, and includes: a limiting...
6262626 Circuit comprising means for reducing the DC-offset and the noise produced by an amplifier  
An amplifier (AMP) is provided with a pair of choppers (CHP i ,CHP o ) in order to reduce the DC-offset and the noise produced by the amplifier (AMP). To obtain an optimal noise reduction the pair...
6259316 Low voltage buffer amplifier for high speed sample and hold applications  
An addition is made to the prior art amplifier of additional transistor (M9) controlled by the input voltage, Vin, in series with the second stage (M5, M6) and a capacitor level shifter (C1)...
6255902 Switch amplifier circuit  
An amplifier circuit with small die size and low power consumption is described. The design allows a number of switch amplifier circuits to be placed on a single chip. Each of the amplifiers...
6252454 Calibrated quasi-autozeroed comparator systems and methods  
A multistage comparator is calibrated to remove quasi-autozero voltages derived from the native comparator offset and autozero switch charge injection offsets. A multistage comparator includes a...
6249181 Differential-mode charge transfer amplifier  
A differential-mode charge transfer amplifier receives a differential input voltage and produces a proportional differential output voltage. The amplifier includes two CMOS charge transfer...
6242974 Self-calibrating operational amplifier  
A stable, reliable, op-amp circuit overcomes the adverse affect of input offset voltages, V OSI , present at the input of op-amp. In one application, such VOSI-compensated op-amps employ a standard...
6225848 Method and apparatus for settling and maintaining a DC offset  
A DC offset correction loop (200) utilizes a sign bit generator (204), binary search stage (206), and a digital-to-analog converter (208) in its feedback path to correct for DC offsets at the input...
6225863 Offset adjusting apparatus for canceling offset voltage generated in difference amplifier  
An offset adjusting apparatus includes transistor groups of transistors connected in parallel to each other. The transistor groups are connected in parallel to either a pair of transistors...
6211729 Amplifier circuit with a switch bypass  
An amplifier/switch circuit includes a first circuit input, a second circuit input, a circuit output, an amplifier, a switching circuit and a DC blocking capacitor. The amplifier has an amplifier...
6198350 Signal amplifier with fast recovery time response, efficient output driver and DC offset cancellation capability  
A signal amplifying circuit (24) includes level shifting input circuits (D1-D4) permitting input common-mode voltages (VIN1 and VIN2) of an amplifier and fault detection circuit (50) to vary...
6194941 DC offset compensation circuit for a signal amplifier  
A DC offset compensation circuit (34) for compensating for a DC offset voltage of a signal amplifier (24) includes a first sample and hold circuit (40) having an input receiving an amplifier output...
6194962 Adaptive operational amplifier offset voltage trimming system  
A system for adaptively trimming the input offset voltage of an op amp employing an input stage with complementary differential pairs provides accurate VD os trimming over the amplifier's entire...
6191648 Switched-capacitor cosine filter circuit  
A switched-capacitor cosine filter circuit includes a differential amplifier and a switched-capacitor circuit. A set of control signals cause the switched-capacitor circuit to selectively couple...
6181454 Adaptive threshold controlled decision circuit immune to ringing components of digital signals  
In an optical receiver, a photodiode converts an optical digital input signal to an electrical signal which is fed into a differential amplifier to produce a pair of true and complementary output...
6169453 Error amplifier with a high common mode rejection  
A differential amplifier provides a high common mode rejection while maintaining substantially unchanged the input dynamic range. The differential amplifier includes a comparator having inputs to...
6166595 Linearization technique for analog to digital converters  
A switched capacitor voltage amplifier having at least one signal input, at least one reference input, an output and a plurality of clock inputs, comprising a high voltage gain (e.g. 100 dB)...
6147552 Chopper-stabilized operational amplifier including integrated circuit with true random voltage output  
An improved chopper stabilized operational amplifier is disclosed, along with an improved method of timing the switchings of chopper switches in such an amplifier. The disclosure includes an...
6140872 Offset-compensated amplifier input stage and method  
An offset-compensated amplifier including an input stage (2) having a current source (10), first (11) and second (12) FETs each having a source connected to the current source, first (17) and...
6140871 Switched capacitor amplifier circuit having bus precharge capability and method  
An amplifier circuit for amplifying a difference between first and second input signals which is capable of precharge a node at which the second input signal is present thereby enhancing the speed...
6137362 Low noise and high input dynamic range differential amplifier stage  
The present invention relates to a differential stage including two first transistors respectively controlled by two components of a differential input voltage, these transistors being connected to...
6130578 Chopper-stabilized amplifier with digital frequency modulated clocking and method  
The chopping frequency driving a chopper-stabilized amplifier (CSA) is dynamically varied between an upper and lower frequency limit to reduce the intermodulation distortion, clock noise and...
6121830 Regulating the gain of a circuit including a programmable current amplifier using a control signal  
The invention relates to programmable amplifiers, more specifically to structural solutions of amplifiers realised on integrated circuits. In the amplifier according to the invention a differential...
6121831 Apparatus and method for removing offset in a gain circuit  
An offset-removing gain circuit where the detected offset is independent of the gain of the circuit. The gain circuit includes a differential amplifier transfer circuit with an input and a output,...
6118338 Low noise amplifier circuit with an isolating switch topology  
An amplifier/switch circuit includes a first circuit input, a second circuit input, a circuit output, an amplifier, a switching circuit and a DC blocking capacitor. The amplifier has an amplifier...
6114980 Method and apparatus for settling a DC offset  
A DC offset correction loop (200) utilizes a sign bit generator (204), binary search stage (206), and a digital-to-analog converter (208) in its feedback path to correct for DC offsets at the input...
6107871 Double sampling analog low pass filter  
A double sampling analog low pass filter for converting differential inputs of first and second analog signals into a single-ended output signal. The double sampling analog low pass filter having...
6097248 Switched capacitor amplifier with one-clock delay  
A switched capacitor amplifier useful in integrated circuits and capable of low power operation, wherein the amplifier comprises at least one first hold capacitor, at least one second hold...
6091300 Method and apparatus for adjusting the input common mode voltage of a differential amplifier  
A method and apparatus for adjusting the output common-mode of a differential amplifier is disclosed. This is accomplished by reducing the supply voltage to the differential amplifier during the...
6091293 Amplifier circuit having AC reset capability and method  
An amplifier circuit having a reset capability for use in analog-to-digital converter comparator stages and the like. First and second amplifier stages include first and transistor second switches,...
6087897 Offset and non-linearity compensated amplifier and method  
Circuitry in an amplifier (1) provides both auto-zeroing of offset errors and finite gain compensation. The circuitry includes a differential main amplifier (3) and a differential auxiliary...
6066986 Integrated monolithic operational amplifier with electrically adjustable input offset voltage  
An integrated operational amplifier device has an operational amplifier device, and means connected to the operational amplifier device for providing at least one of a positive and a negative...
6064257 Chopper-stabilized operational amplifier  
A chopper stabilized operational amplifier implemented on a single integrated circuit chip is disclosed. The disclosure includes a symmetrical random signal generator circuit that produces a true...
6049246 Amplifier offset cancellation using current copier  
A differential amplifier circuit achieves offset cancellation by supplying an offset correction current from a current copier circuit to the output of the differential amplifier. The current copier...
6049247 Low-voltage common source switched-capacitor amplifier  
The present disclosure describes a low-voltage switched-capacitor amplifier circuit that operates with supply voltage as low as one volt. The switched-capacitor amplifier circuit includes a...
6046638 Receive amplifier for reception of high-speed data signals  
A receive amplifier for high-speed data has a differential input stage with a very wide common-mode rejection range and low offset voltage. This input stage interfaces the differential data signals...
6037836 Switched-capacitor amplifier circuit  
A switched-capacitor amplifier circuit produces accurate output signal even if the input signal varies rapidly at every sampling phase. Two capacitors having the same capacitance are connected, in...
6034569 Amplifier offset cancellation system  
The DC level of the output of an amplifier may be dynamically adjusted depending on the operating conditions of the amplifier by comparing the output of the amplifier to a set reference value using...
6031420 Operational amplifier arrangement  
An operational amplifier arrangement includes besides the two-stage operational amplifier, a third stage for tracking and holding the input offset of the first stage during an offset compensation...
6031480 Method and apparatus for implementing a pipelined A/D converter with inter-stage amplifiers having no common mode feedback circuitry  
A pipelined analog-to-digital converter is disclosed having a plurality of sample and hold converter stages, each having an interstage amplifier (28) associated therewith. This is a differential...
6028469 Electric circuit arrangement comprising a switchable feedback branch  
An electric circuit having a switchable feedback branch switchable between a first feedback state, in which the circuit arrangement has a frequency response that is stable with respect to an...