Abstract:
A transconductor comprising a differential stage composed of a pair of input transistors, a resistive line of degeneration convecting the sources of the input transistors of said differential stage, a pair of bias current generators, each coupled between the source of a respective input transistor and a common ground node, has said resistive line of degeneration composed of one or more transistors in series, the gate of which is coupled to a voltage at least equal to the common mode voltage of the differential stage, and which are sized to operate in the triode region.
Abstract:
A method of delaying by a certain time interval (Δwp) a transition in a digital data stream (O) fed to a write head of a mass storage device when said transition occurs at a clock phase following the one during which a preceding transition has occurred, for pre-compensating intersymbolic nonlinear interference effects suffered when reading the stored data, comprises feeding to a first circuit (CC1) a digital data stream (I) to be stored and a clock signal (Ck) and outputting from said first circuit (CC1) a pair of digital streams (N, R), a first stream (N) assuming a first logic value every time a transition of said input stream occurs during a clock phase not successive to a clock phase during which a transition of said input stream (I) has occurred, the second stream (R) assuming said first logic value every time a transition of said input stream (I) occurs during a clock phase following a clock phase during which a transition has taken place in said input stream (I); feeding said two digital stream (N, R) and said clock signal (Ck) to as many inputs of a second circuit (DC1) and outputting from said second circuit said digital data stream (O) directed to the write head, in which the transitions immediately following a preceding transition are delayed by said pre-established time interval (Δwp), by sampling the two digital streams (N, R) with a pair of flip-flops (FN2, FR2), each of which is respectively timed by clock signals respectively delayed by a certain different time interval (Δn, Δr) and such that the difference between said different delay intervals is equal to said pre-established time interval ( Δn-Δr=Δwp ) and recombining the signals output from said pair of flip-flops (FN2, FR2) through an logic XOR gate (X1) into said digital data stream (O).
Abstract:
A transconductor comprising a differential stage composed of a pair of input transistors, a resistive line of degeneration convecting the sources of the input transistors of said differential stage, a pair of bias current generators, each coupled between the source of a respective input transistor and a common ground node, has said resistive line of degeneration composed of one or more transistors in series, the gate of which is coupled to a voltage at least equal to the common mode voltage of the differential stage, and which are sized to operate in the triode region.