Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor integrated circuit which can be surely operated even when a power supply voltage is low. SOLUTION: The invention relates to a semiconductor integrated circuit including: NMOS switches 5, 6 for performing ON/OFF control, in accordance with control signals SEL1, SEL2, on signals inputted to input terminals 1, 2; and an operational amplifier 8 for amplifying the signals on which ON/OFF control has been performed by the NMOS switches 5, 6. The integrated circuit includes a level shifter 31 for boosting the control signals SEL1, SEL2 to a voltage higher than a power supply voltage of the operational amplifier 8. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a digital/analog converter with high accuracy that is capable of multi-bits processing and configured with CMOS transistors(TRs). SOLUTION: A switch matrix circuit 1 consists of a resistor string 5 comprising resistors in series connection, switches S0a-S8a, S0b-S8b, amplifiers 16, 17 and resistors 6, 7 connected like a matrix state. Each switch is on/off- controlled by a signal resulting from decoding high-order 4-bits of data to be converted and a voltage corresponding to the high-order 4-bits of the data to be converted is obtained as an output of the amplifiers 16, 17 thereby. A low-order bit conversion circuit 2 is a circuit conducting digital/analog conversion adopting conventional resistance weighting and converts low-order 4-bits of the data to be converted into an analog voltage. An operational amplifier 3 synthesizes the outputs of the circuits 1, 2 to obtain an analog conversion output.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a PLL circuit that can easily shift to a lock state and cope with a sampling frequency over a range wider than a conventional range without extending a clock frequency width more than a conventional lock frequency width. SOLUTION: A higher lock frequency is set in advance when no data stream DF is applied to an input terminal 11, and the lock frequency is shifted to a lower frequency when the data stream DF is applied to the input terminal 11. Thus, locking is easily shifted at the application of the data stream DF. Furthermore, a range counter 38 detects the frequency of the data stream DF, selects any of frequency divider circuits 34-36 and uses the selected frequency divider circuit according to the result of detection. Thus, the PLL circuit can cope with a sampling frequency with a range wider than that of a conventional PLL circuit without extending a variable frequency width of an output of a VCO 21 more than that of the conventional PLL circuit.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress offset even when the relevant offset occurs in the signal level of an input signal. SOLUTION: An offset cancel apparatus S1 is configured to complementarily change a resistance value between the inverted input terminal and the signal input terminal IN of an operational amplifier 20A for differential amplification circuit and a resistance value between the inverted input terminal and an output terminal, to gradually reduce the potential of an output signal Vout and to specify each resistance value in such a way that the potential becomes "0" finally, and carries out offset cancel using the resistance values. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a magnetic measuring apparatus having an improvement in measurement precision. SOLUTION: A magnetic sensor 11 measures the intensity of magnetism in the direction of a Z-axis. Output of the magnetic sensor 11 is amplified by amplifiers 62 and 63, and output of the amplifiers 62 and 63 is further differentially amplified by an amplifier 64. Output of a tilt sensor 12 is amplified by an amplifier 66. Output of the amplifiers 64 and 66 is directly connected to a terminal 68. The terminal 68 is connected to an input end of an A/D converter. The amplifiers 64 and 66 are each constituted of an amplifier having two output states of an active state and a high-impedance state. Input to the A/D converter is thereby executed by the direct connection of each output end to improve measurement precision in comparison with the case of switching through the use of switches. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a voltage controlled oscillator in which an oscillation frequency and an oscillation amplitude hardly suffer from an influence of a change in power supply voltage. SOLUTION: The odd number of logical inverting circuits (INV1-INV5) are connected in series, and the output of the final stage logical inverting circuit is fed back and input into the initial stage logical inverting circuit. In this way, sources of source follower FETs (P21-P25) of corresponding drain ground are connected to each of electric source side nodes of the logical inverting circuits forming a ring oscillator (102) having an oscillation function, and a stable bias voltage is applied to each gate of the source follower FETs. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a PLL circuit for easily performing locking and making unlocking hard once locking is performed. SOLUTION: A data clock extraction circuit 12 extracts clock signals from an input data stream DF and outputs them through a selector 13 to a phase comparator 17a. The phase comparator 17a compares the phases of the clock signals and feedback signals and outputs the result through an LPF 20a to a VCO 21. The output of the VCO 21 is inputted through a frequency divider circuit to the phase comparator 17a. A filter control circuit 26 is a circuit for automatically setting the filter constant of the LPF 20a, sets the filter constant for accelerating the response speed of the LPF 17a in the case that the input data stream DF and the fed-back clock signals are not synchronized and sets the filter constant for lowering the response speed of the LPF 20a in the case that they are synchronized.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a temperature sensor for compensating irregularity about a measured value to improve precision by providing a fuse memory to store an initial value and a compensated value and compensating the measured value to the values, and to provide a method of compensating the temperature sensor. SOLUTION: In the temperature sensor 1, a control logic circuit 11 controls the temperature sensor 1. In assembling the temperature sensor 1, the control logic circuit 11 reads a result of measuring characteristics about circumferential temperature from a temperature sensor circuit 12, obtains the initial value and the compensated value from the result and stores them to the fuse memory 13. In addition, during operation of the temperature sensor 1, the control logic circuit 11 reads the initial value and the compensated value from the fuse memory 13, and compensates measuring values of the temperature sensor circuit 12 by using the values. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a magnetic measuring apparatus of low electric power consumption which makes measurements without depending on power voltage. SOLUTION: An X-axis sensor 1 and a Y-axis sensor 2 are each used for measuring the intensity of magnetism in the direction of an X-axis and the intensity of magnetism in the direction of a Y-axis. Output of the X-axis sensor 1 and the Y-axis sensor 2 is amplified by amplifiers 24-26 and inputted to an A/D converter via a sample hold circuit 31. FETs 21 and 22 for turning each power supply line of the X-axis sensor 1 and the Y-axis sensor 2 on/off are provided and turned on only when the X-axis sensor 1 and the Y-axis sensor 2 are used. Resistors R1X-R3X and R1Y-R3Y for dividing the electrical potential difference between the sensors 1 and 2 are provided. Amplifiers 36 and 37 for amplifying voltages of nodes of the resistors are provided. Output of the amplifiers 36 and 37 is outputted to the A/D converter as a reference voltage. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI