Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Signal converting – shaping – or generating – Amplitude control
Patent
1995-06-01
1996-03-12
Tran, Toan
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Signal converting, shaping, or generating
Amplitude control
327306, H03L 500
Patent
active
054989914
ABSTRACT:
A level shifter includes an N-channel enhancement-mode field effect transistor (40), a P-channel depletion-mode field effect transistor (38), and a current mirror (42) coupled to the source of the enhancement-mode transistor and the drain of the depletion-mode transistor; wherein the gates of the transistors are coupled to an input terminal and the source of the enhancement-mode FET is coupled to an output terminal to provide a level shifted output signal.
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Manzo Edward D.
OKI Electric Industry Co., Ltd.
Ringsred Ted K.
Tran Toan
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