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- Patent Title: Current signal generation useful for sampling
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Application No.: US16902808Application Date: 2020-06-16
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Publication No.: US11431307B2Publication Date: 2022-08-30
- Inventor: Armin Jalili Sebardan , Alistair John Gratrex
- Applicant: SOCIONEXT INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
- Current Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Priority: EP19180663 20190617
- Main IPC: H03F3/45
- IPC: H03F3/45 ; H03M1/12 ; G01R19/00 ; H03F3/217

Abstract:
Sampler circuitry, having: an input node which receives an input voltage signal; a primary current path connected between high and low voltage supply nodes; a secondary current path connected between high and low voltage supply nodes; current mirror circuitry; and load circuitry having sampler switches which sample a current signal, where the input node is defined along the primary current path, the primary current path configured to carry a primary current dependent on the input voltage signal; the current mirror circuitry includes a primary side and a secondary side, the primary side connected along the primary current path and the secondary side connected along the secondary current path so that a secondary current dependent on the primary current is caused to flow along the secondary current path; and the load circuitry is connected along the secondary current path so that the secondary current at least partly forms the current signal.
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