Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Rail-to-rail follower circuits
- Patent Title (中): 轨到轨跟随器电路
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Application No.: US14203461Application Date: 2014-03-10
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Publication No.: US09467107B2Publication Date: 2016-10-11
- Inventor: Ricardo P. Coimbra , Edevaldo Pereira Silva, Jr. , Andre L. Couto
- Applicant: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Main IPC: H03F3/45
- IPC: H03F3/45 ; H03F1/42 ; H03F3/30 ; H03F3/50

Abstract:
In some embodiments, a source follower circuit may include a first level shifter configured to receive an input voltage; an N-type Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (NMOS) transistor having a gate terminal coupled to an output of the first level shifter; a second level shifter configured to receive the input voltage; a P-type Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (PMOS) transistor having a gate terminal coupled to an output of the second level shifter and a source terminal coupled to a source terminal of the NMOS transistor; and an amplifier configured to receive the input voltage and to output a current at a node between the source terminal of the NMOS transistor and the source terminal of the PMOS transistor, wherein the current is determined based upon a difference between the input voltage and a reference voltage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150256135A1 RAIL-TO-RAIL FOLLOWER CIRCUITS Public/Granted day:2015-09-10
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