A-B buffer circuit with TTL compatible output drive

Details A-B buffer circuit with TTL compatible output drive A-B buffer circuit with TTL compatible output drive

1989-11-03

1991-05-14

Hudspeth, David

Electrical transmission or interconnection systems

Nonlinear reactor systems

Parametrons

307443, 307455, H03K 1716, H03L 326

Patent

active

050158872

ABSTRACT:
A single supply, TTL-compatible, class A-B signal buffer architecture comprises a multistage emitter-follower transistor circuit that is coupled between an input terminal and an output terminal capable of sinking and sourcing current to TTL specifications. A reference emitter-follower transistor stage is coupled in parallel with one of the emitter-follower transistor stages of the multistage emitter-follower transistor circuit, and a common emitter, current control transistor stage has its emitter-collector path coupled between the output terminal and ground for controlling the operation of the multistage emitter-follower transistor circuit. A differential amplifier stage, one arm of which is used to controllably forward bias the base-emitter junction of the current control transistor, has a first input coupled to the reference emitter-follower transistor stage and a second input coupled to the one emitter-follower transistor stage of the multistage emitter-follower transistor circuit. The control arm of the differential amplifier contains a voltage-dropping load impedance, to which the base of the current control transistor is coupled. A further, voltage-referenced emitter-follower provides a prescribed minimum bias voltage across the load impedance, so as to maintain the current controlling, common emitter transistor stage to be continuously conductive, so that cross-over distortion in the output signal is minimized.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3610962 (1971-10-01), Keene et al.
patent: 4897560 (1990-01-01), Saito et al.

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