Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Constant output common mode voltage of a pre-amplifier circuit
- Patent Title (中): 前置放大器电路的恒定输出共模电压
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Application No.: US12174619Application Date: 2008-07-16
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Publication No.: US07683716B2Publication Date: 2010-03-23
- Inventor: Ravi Jitendra Mehta , Sumantra Seth , Sujoy Chinmoy Chakravarty
- Applicant: Ravi Jitendra Mehta , Sumantra Seth , Sujoy Chinmoy Chakravarty
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Ronald O. Neerings; Wade James Brady, III; Frederick J. Telecky, Jr.
- Main IPC: H03F3/45
- IPC: H03F3/45

Abstract:
A method, apparatus and system of constant output common mode voltage of a pre-amplifier circuit are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a first circuit, a comparator circuit coupled with an output of the first circuit, a pre-amplifier circuit of the comparator circuit, a tracking circuit coupled with a common output location of the pre-amplifier circuit to provide (e.g., source/sink) an additional current to the common output location of the pre-amplifier circuit using an alternate current path in the tracking circuit when an input common mode of the pre-amplifier circuit is beyond a saturation range, and a second circuit of the comparator circuit coupled with the pre-amplifier circuit. A scaled version of a pair of input transistors of a pre-amplifier circuit of the tracking circuit may be created using a scaling factor (‘N’).
Public/Granted literature
- US20090302895A1 CONSTANT OUTPUT COMMON MODE VOLTAGE OF A PRE-AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2009-12-10
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