Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Switched current mirror with good matching
- Patent Title (中): 开关电流镜具有良好的匹配
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Application No.: US13046864Application Date: 2011-03-14
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Publication No.: US08373491B2Publication Date: 2013-02-12
- Inventor: Norbert Van Den Bos , Roeland Heijna , Hendrik Visser
- Applicant: Norbert Van Den Bos , Roeland Heijna , Hendrik Visser
- Applicant Address: CH Plan-les-Ouates
- Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
- Current Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
- Current Assignee Address: CH Plan-les-Ouates
- Agency: Coats & Bennett, P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: H03K17/00
- IPC: H03K17/00

Abstract:
A current mirror circuit exhibits improved current matching by applying a switching signal to ground path switches in series with transistors in both a reference path and an output path of the current mirror. The switching signal may comprise a high-frequency signal, which may be phase modulated. A plurality of matched, parallel-connected output transistors may be selectively enabled by qualifying the switching signal applied to each corresponding series-connected ground path switches by decoded digital modulation data. In one embodiment, the modulation data is decoded to thermometer-coded representation. In one embodiment, the switching signal path is identical to the reference and output circuits.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120081174A1 SWITCHED CURRENT MIRROR WITH GOOD MATCHING Public/Granted day:2012-04-05
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