58results about How to "Increase the output resistance" patented technology

Disclosed are current sink and source circuits, a charge pump that incorporates them, and a phase locked loop that incorporates the charge pump. The current sink and source circuits each have a current mirror that biases a transistor connected to an output node. These circuits each further have a two-stage feedback amplifier to sense the current mirror drain voltage and to control the transistor gate voltage in order to stabilize the current mirror drain voltage independent of output voltage at the output node. The amplifier also increases output resistance at the output node. This configuration allows for a wide operation voltage range and ensures good circuit performance under a very low power supply. A charge pump that incorporates these circuits generates highly matched charging and discharging currents. A PLL that incorporates this charge pump exhibits minimal bandwidth shifts and minimal locking speed and jitter performance degradation.

The invention relates to an electroluminescent (EL) lamp driver for controlling the luminescent brightness of at least two EL lamps (28, 38), wherein the driver I is adapted to receive at least two setpoint values corresponding to luminescent brightness of the EL lamps and to create charge waveforms (128, 138) in accordance with the received setpoint values for charging or discharging the EL lamps (28, 38).

The invention provides a ZQ calibration controller applied to a semiconductor memory. The ZQ calibration controller comprises a temperature sensor, a temperature control unit and a ZQ calibration unit, wherein the temperature sensor is used for detecting the temperature of a semiconductor memory; the temperature control unit is used for acquiring and storing a first temperature value and a second temperature value of the semiconductor memory from the temperature sensor, calculating the deviation between the first temperature value and the second temperature value and sending a ZQ calibration starting signal when the deviation exceeds a threshold; and the ZQ calibration unit is used for carrying out ZQ calibration on the semiconductor memory after receiving the ZQ calibration starting signal and sending a ZQ calibration ending signal to the temperature control unit after the ZQ calibration is finished. According to the ZQ calibration controller, by additionally arranging the temperature control unit, the ZQ calibration of the semiconductor memory can be automatically started according to the temperature change of the semiconductor memory, and a resistance value of an output end is improved, so that the integrity of the signal is maintained, the programming burden of the controller is alleviated, the cost is saved, and the power consumption is saved; and an output resistance value of an output port is relatively flexibly and effectively controlled.

A regulated mirror current source circuit has an output transistor, a regulator for controlling the output circuit, and a current mirror having two or more current paths. The first path of the mirror is coupled in series with a current path of the output circuit, and the second path is coupled to the regulator, to provide feedback. The feedback can provide better precision, or reduced component area. The circuit can include cascode transistors, and the regulator can have integral control. The output transistor gate-source voltage is overdriven to reduce “on” resistance of the output transistor. When the output transistor is a high voltage transistor, its area can be reduced without sacrificing compliance.

The invention discloses a charge pump circuit working at extra low voltage, comprising a common-source common-body body drive current mirror, a first operational amplifier and a second operational amplifier, wherein the common-source common-body body drive current mirror consists of a first N-type MOS tube, a second N-type MOS tube, a third N-type MOS tube, a fourth N-type MOS tube, a first P-type MOS tube, a second P-type MOS tube, a third P-type MOS tube and a fourth P-type MOS tube, the second N-type MOS tube and the fourth N-type MOS tube not only realize the function of pulling down current tubes, but also realizes the function of pulling down the MOS tubes; the second P-type MOS tube and the fourth P-type MOS tube not only realize the function of pulling up the current tubes, but also realizes the function of pulling up the MOS tubes, thereby realizing the parallel connection relation of an MOS switch function and a current mirror function. The goal of increasing gains is achieved through the two operational amplifiers, i.e. the output resistance of the common-source common-body current mirror can be increased under low supply voltage.

The invention relates to large-scale integrated circuits, and aims to boost input transconductance and output resistance of an amplifier, further improve direct current gain of the amplifier and finally realize boost of direct current gain and gain bandwidth product of the amplifier under the condition of same chip area. Therefore, the technical scheme of the invention is a gain-boosted operational amplifier applicable to a TFT-LCD drive circuit. The gain-boosted operational amplifier applicable to the TFT-LCD drive circuit is composed of a Recycling folded cascade amplification stage, an output resistance boosting loop, a transconductance boosting loop and a high swing output stage; differential mode signals Vin- and Vin+ are input through the Recycling folded cascade amplification stage, then, the signals are subjected to the cross positive feedback effect of the output resistance boosting loop stage and the transconductance boosting loop stage and further subjected to current multiplication of a cascade current mirror, and finally, the signals are output to an output end through the high swing output stage. The gain-boosted operational amplifier applicable to the TFT-LCD drive circuit is mainly applied to the large-scale integrated circuits.

Disclosed are design structures for current sink and source circuits, a charge pump, and a phase locked loop. The current sink and source circuits each have a current mirror that biases a transistor connected to an output node. These circuits each further have a two-stage feedback amplifier to sense the current mirror drain voltage and to control the transistor gate voltage in order to stabilize the current mirror drain voltage independent of output voltage at the output node. The amplifier also increases output resistance at the output node. This configuration allows for a wide operation voltage range and ensures good circuit performance under a very low power supply. A charge pump that incorporates these circuits generates highly matched charging and discharging currents. A PLL that incorporates this charge pump exhibits minimal bandwidth shifts and minimal locking speed and jitter performance degradation.

A stacked CMOS current mirror using metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) having different threshold voltages is disclosed. The stacked CMOS current mirror includes a first MOSFET having a drain and a gate which are connected to an input current terminal, a second MOSFET having a drain connected to a source of the first MOSFET, a gate connected to the drain and the gate of the first MOSFET, and a source connected to ground, a third MOSFET having a drain connected to an output current terminal and a gate connected to the drain and the gate of the first MOSFET and the gate of the second MOSFET, and a fourth MOSFET having a drain connected to a source of the third MOSFET, a gate connected to the drain and the gate of the first MOSFET, the gate of the second MOSFET and the gate of the third MOSFET, and a source connected to the ground.

The invention relates to a transconductance amplifier adopting the signal attenuation technology and a method. The transconductance amplifier comprises differential input-stage input voltages Vin+ and Vin-, and differential input currents are generated. Power voltage VDD is accessed to a signal attenuation circuit, signal attenuation is carried out on the differential input currents, and a current attenuation signal is generated. The power voltage VDD has access to a bias current source, communication is carried out according to the current attenuation signal, and bias currents are output to a first current mirror and a second current mirror. The first current mirror and the second current mirror both copy the bias currents, and copied currents are generated to be transmitted to a third current mirror. The unity-gain bandwidth is increased through the third current mirror, gain amplification is carried out on the copied currents, and an amplifying signal Iout is output. Compared with the prior art, the influence between input and output voltages is low, no additional pole is introduced, and high linearity, high gain and high-precision amplification are achieved.

A circuit includes a degeneration p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) transistor, a load PMOS transistor, and a clamp transistor configured to clamp a voltage applied to a resistance based memory element during a sensing operation. A gate of the load PMOS transistor is controlled by an output of an operational amplifier.

A stacked MOS configuration for use in short channel length analog circuit technologies is provided. The stacked MOS configuration comprises a plurality of short-channel MOS transistors coupled in series and sharing a common gate terminal. In an embodiment, a first peripheral transistor provides a drain terminal for the stacked MOS configuration. A second peripheral transistor provides a source terminal for the stacked MOS configuration. Adjacent transistors in the stacked MOS configuration are connected in a drain-to-source configuration.