Invention Grant
US07671637B2 Differential transistor pair current switch supplied by a low voltage VCC
有权
差分晶体管对电流开关由低电压VCC提供
- Patent Title: Differential transistor pair current switch supplied by a low voltage VCC
- Patent Title (中): 差分晶体管对电流开关由低电压VCC提供
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Application No.: US11994134Application Date: 2006-06-06
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Publication No.: US07671637B2Publication Date: 2010-03-02
- Inventor: Richard Morisson
- Applicant: Richard Morisson
- Applicant Address: FR
- Assignee: E2V Semiconductors
- Current Assignee: E2V Semiconductors
- Current Assignee Address: FR
- Agency: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP
- Priority: FR0506563 20050628
- International Application: PCT/EP2006/062935 WO 20060606
- International Announcement: WO2007/000387 WO 20070104
- Main IPC: H03K3/00
- IPC: H03K3/00

Abstract:
The invention relates to current switches using a differential pair of transistors and being able to operate under a low supply voltage Vcc. According to the invention, provision is made for the current switch to include two differential pairs of two transistors each (T1, T1b; T2, T2b), cascaded together, the second pair (T2, T2b) having complementary current outputs (H, Hb) that flip according to the states of the inputs (E, Eb). The first pair (T1, T1b) is connected to a ground (GND) through a current source, supplying a current of value Io and comprising a transistor (Ts1) biased by a voltage Vbias, and it is supplied by a voltage equal to N·Vbe+Vbias, where N is a whole number (preferably equal to 1) and Vbe is the base-emitter voltage of the transistor (Ts1). The second pair (T2, T2b) is connected to ground directly through a resistance (R2). The invention can be applied to the on-off control of sample-and-hold circuits, multiplexers, fast low-voltage logic circuits, etc.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090140777A1 DIFFERENTIAL TRANSISTOR PAIR CURRENT SWITCH SUPPLIED BY A LOW VOLTAGE VCC Public/Granted day:2009-06-04
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