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Class 330/260 - Having signal feedback means


Subclass of Class 330 - Amplifiers
Definition: Subject matter wherein a portion of the electrical signal
No. of patents: 732
Last issue date: 01/17/2012


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NumberTitleIssue Date
8098099Broadband high output current output stage
A broadband high output current output stage includes at least one first differential pair for enhancing the bandwidth. A second differential pair is further disposed in the circuit. The second differential pair is coupled to one of the first differential pair, such...
01/17/2012
8022764Differential amplifier
A differential amplifier unit and a feedback unit are provided. The differential amplifier unit includes first and second transistors and first to fourth loads. Each of the first and second transistors is provided with a current input end, a current output end conne...
09/20/2011
7898333Operational amplifier
The present invention relates generally to an operational amplifier. In one embodiment, the present invention is an operational amplifier including a transimpedance input stage, the transimpedance input stage including a first stage connected to a first resistor and...
03/01/2011
7893767Operational amplifier and integrating circuit
An operational amplifier in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention includes a differential amplifier circuit to perform differential amplification of an input signal with respect to a reference potential Vbias, an output circuit to output a signal a...
02/22/2011
7876155Transimpedance amplifier with distributed control of feedback line
An apparatus includes an electronic amplifier and an electrical feedback line, a plurality of electrical sources, and an electronic controller. The electrical feedback line connects an output of the electronic amplifier to an input thereof. The electrical sources co...
01/25/2011
7852158Operational amplifier
An operational amplifier includes, between an input and an output of an operational amplifier (an operational amplification stage) 10, a feedback capacitor 34 connected in negative feedback, a phase control circuit 100 having a resistor element ...
12/14/2010
7746172Linearized differential transimpedance amplifier
The present invention relates to a transimpedance amplifier circuit that includes a linearized differential transimpedance amplifier, a detector, and dynamic current source circuitry, which diverts common mode currents from feedback resistors in the linearized diffe...
06/29/2010
7741910Capacitor gain-boost circuit
A circuit is disclosed that comprises a capacitor gain-boost circuit and an amplifier coupled to capacitor gain-boost circuit. A capacitor gain-boost circuit comprises of capacitor, gain-boost amplifier and biasing circuit. The gain-boost amplifier and capacitor pro...
06/22/2010
7737783Differential amplifier
A differential amplifier comprises a left amplifier having transistors, a right amplifier having transistors, a negative feedback network having a resistor, and a negative feedback network having a transformer with a center tap. Phase compensation networks comprisin...
06/15/2010
7733180Amplifier for driving external capacitive loads
An apparatus having a zero-pole that is dependant on an equivalent series resistance (ESR) and a load is provided. The apparatus comprises an amplifier stage that receives a first input voltage and a bias voltage, an intermediate stage that is coupled to the output ...
06/08/2010
7719361Differential amplifier with current source controlled through differential feedback
A differential amplifier includes a first electrical path formed between a first transistor and a first load impedance; a second electrical path formed between a second transistor and a second load impedance; a tail-current transistor coupled to the first and second...
05/18/2010
7679445Independent dominant pole compensation of two loops using one compensating element
Disclosed is a differential amplifier system that maintains high speed characteristics of the differential amplifier while providing stability from a common-mode loop by using dominant pole compensation. The disclosed system includes a first and second transconducta...
03/16/2010
7659780Gain control circuit
A gain control circuit including a resistor with a first terminal and a second terminal; an operational amplifier with an inverting terminal thereof electrically coupled to said first terminal of said resistor; a non-inverting terminal thereof; and an output termina...
02/09/2010
7652536Amplifier circuit with internal zeros
An amplifier circuit with internal zeros provides a second pole in addition to a first pole and two zeros such that the second pole can prevent excessive gain at high frequency, so as to have high-frequency noise under control. ...
01/26/2010
7639079Techniques for designing wide band low noise amplifiers
A wideband amplifier having an amplifier input terminal and an amplifier output terminal includes at least one transistor coupled to the amplifier input terminal and an impedance element coupled between the amplifier input terminal and the amplifier output terminal....
12/29/2009
7605657Multi-mode amplifier arrangement and method for controlling an amplifier arrangement
A multi-mode amplifier arrangement comprises an amplifier having a plurality of field effect transistors selectable in response to a control signal at a control terminal, said plurality of field effect transistors coupled to an input terminal to receive a signal to ...
10/20/2009
7583146Balanced differential cross-coupled transconductance amplifier for a multiplexor
A balanced, differential, cross-coupled amplifier including an input stage for receiving a differential input and including an input transconductance differential pair and a feedback transconductance differential pair; and an output stage responsive to the input sta...
09/01/2009
7576610Operational amplifier of class AB
A class AB operational amplifier is provided that includes first and second input transistors respectively coupled between first and second internal nodes and a first common node, first and second input stage load transistors diode connected and respectively coupled...
08/18/2009
7560988Integrated circuit system for line regulation of an amplifier
An integrated circuit system is provided including forming a differential pair; reducing a mismatch in the differential pair by: coupling an amplifier to the differential pair; and coupling a local feedback network to the amplifier in which referencing the local fee...
07/14/2009
7554403Gainboost biasing circuit for low voltage operational amplifier design
Bias current generation circuits and systems are disclosed. In one embodiment, a gain boosting cascode system comprises a cascode based on a transconductance amplifier and a current buffer and a gain booster circuit coupled to the cascode optimally boosting a gain o...
06/30/2009
7538615Differential feedback amplifier circuit with cross coupled capacitors
The present invention relates to a differential feedback amplifier circuit with cross coupled capacitors. Wherein, the first and second input terminals of a source follower are respectively coupled to the first and second output terminals of a differential amplifier...
05/26/2009
7514999Voltage-to-current converter
Circuits and methods to achieve a voltage-to-current converter having low noise and a high linearity are disclosed. In a preferred embodiment the converter has been used as a Gm integrator. The core of the invention is an operational transconductance amplifier (OTA)...
04/07/2009
7495512Differential amplifier, data driver and display device
A differential amplifying circuit capable of reducing amplitude-difference deviation over a full range of grayscale voltages inclusive of voltages in the vicinity of power-supply voltage includes first and second differential pairs of mutually different polarities, ...
02/24/2009
7477103Amplifier circuit
An amplifier has a voltage to current converter coupled between a first potential and a reference potential and includes a control input coupled to a voltage at an input of the amplifier for converting the voltage at the amplifier input into a corresponding output c...
01/13/2009
7474154Bias device clamping circuit for fast over-range recovery
A gain-boosted telescopic amplifier (100) includes clamping circuits for the bias devices to ensure fast over-voltage recovery. In one embodiment, the gain-boosted telescopic amplifier includes an input pair of NMOS transistors (MP1, MN1...
01/06/2009
7446611Fully differential amplifier device with output-common-mode feedback and control method thereof
A fully differential amplifier device includes a first input and a second input, a first output and a second output, and a differential input stage, provided with a first input transistor and a second input transistor. The first input and the first output and the se...
11/04/2008
7443237Folded cascode amplifier having improved slew performance
A folded cascode amplifier having improved slew comprises an input differential transistor pair circuit, a cascode branch circuit coupled to the differential pair circuit, and a boost circuit for increasing branch current when the amplifier is in a slew condition. T...
10/28/2008
7436216Method and apparatus for a direct current (DC) coupled input buffer
A method and apparatus for combining an alternating current (AC) coupling technique with a low frequency restoration technique to provide AC coupling with low frequency restoration of the attenuated low frequency content. The low frequency restoration circuit operat...
10/14/2008
7436262Highly linear variable gain amplifier
Disclosed are systems and methods which provide very linear amplification of signals using a linearized transconductance circuit. A transconductance amplifier configuration is shown which provides highly linearized operation utilizing a Darlington pair feedback circ...
10/14/2008
7429882AC-DC input buffer
An inverting input buffer that uses the best features of an AC input buffer (low delay, high speed, high input voltage swing range) and a DC input buffer (stability, reliability, ‘automatic’ high and low data setup, input VIL and VIH “Voltage Input Low” and ...
09/30/2008
7423457Fast settling current steering circuit
A selector switch may be controlled by a single-ended control signal for steering a current through a load or through an auxiliary line. The selector switch may include a first terminal to be coupled to the load, and a second terminal to be connected to the auxiliar...
09/09/2008
7423482Circuit configuration having a feedback operational amplifier
The present invention relates to a circuit configuration (10) having a feedback operational amplifier (AMP) for amplifying an input signal (Vin) input into the circuit arrangement (10) and outputting the amplified input signal as an output signal (Vout...
09/09/2008
7423479Offset canceller for compensating for offset in signal output
An offset canceller outputs a signal during its offset compensating operation and compensates for the offset by capacitance or resistance devices connected externally to an operational amplifier. A driving circuit includes plural output circuits #1 to #n+1 fo...
09/09/2008
7420423Active balun device
An active balun device is provided. The active balun device includes: a differential input portion for receiving an external single input signal to output two complementary differential signals; and a differential amplifier connected to the differential input portio...
09/02/2008
7414467Circuit configuration having a feedback, fully-differential operational amplifier
The present invention relates to a circuit configuration having a feedback operational amplifier (AMP), which is implemented as fully differential, for amplifying an input signal differentially input to the circuit configuration and for outputting the amplified inpu...
08/19/2008
7414464Op driver with the function of canceling op offset
An operational amplifier driver capable of canceling an offset voltage of an operational amplifier includes the operational amplifier, first to third switches and a capacitor. The operational amplifier has a chopper, first and second input terminals and an output te...
08/19/2008
7411453Tail-current steering circuit and method for rail-to-rail operational amplifier input stage
An amplifier includes first and second pairs of differentially coupled input transistors. The first current mirror generates a reference current which is mirrored by a second current mirror to produce a mirrored reference current. Current steering circuitry steers t...
08/12/2008
7405623Sensing circuit
A sensing circuit capable of detecting very low current pulses of the order of 10's and 100's of micro amps. The sensing circuit comprises a common gate amplification stage capable of amplifying a sensed current, a comparison stage having as an input the amplified s...
07/29/2008
7405625Common-mode control structures and signal converter systems for use therewith
Control structures are provided to accurately maintain amplifier common-mode levels at the predetermined level of a common-mode reference voltage Vcm. The disclosed control structures provide amplifier feedback along a first feedback path that is configur...
07/29/2008
7403067Compensation circuit for amplifiers having multiple stages
An amplifier circuit comprises a first capacitance having one end that communicates with an input of a first amplifier stage. An amplifier has a first gain, an input that communicates with an opposite end of the first capacitance, and an output. A second capacitance...
07/22/2008
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