Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Line driver with active termination
- Patent Title (中): 线路驱动器,主动终端
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Application No.: US11590202Application Date: 2006-10-30
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Publication No.: US08009824B2Publication Date: 2011-08-30
- Inventor: Jiangfeng Wu , Tianwei Li , Arnoldus Venes
- Applicant: Jiangfeng Wu , Tianwei Li , Arnoldus Venes
- Applicant Address: US CA Irvine
- Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Irvine
- Agency: Farjami & Farjami LLP
- Main IPC: H04M1/00
- IPC: H04M1/00

Abstract:
A line driver comprises a driving amplifier receiving an input of the line driver, a current sense resistor connected between the driving amplifier output and the line driver output, and a feedback amplifier sensing the voltage across the current sense resistor and providing a corresponding feedback voltage that is proportional to the output current to the driving amplifier, thereby determining an output impedance at the line driver output. Precise output impedance can be realized by using a high precision resistor as the current sense resistor, and using resistive feedback amplifiers with accurate gains as the driving and feedback amplifiers. The resistance of the current sense resistor can be substantially less than the line driver output impedance, and the driving amplifier output voltage swing can be substantially less than twice the line driver output voltage swing.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080101592A1 Line driver with active termination Public/Granted day:2008-05-01
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