Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Specific identifiable device – circuit – or system – Nonlinear amplifying circuit
Patent
1996-07-01
1999-02-16
Wells, Kenneth B.
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Specific identifiable device, circuit, or system
Nonlinear amplifying circuit
327 67, 327562, 330253, 330293, G06G 712
Patent
active
058724826
ABSTRACT:
An amplifier circuit for analog-signal processing has an operational amplifier having an output, an inverting input, and supply inputs for accepting a single supply potential and a reference potential. The operational amplifier has a noninverting input capable of accepting a signal voltage of a varying analog signal input thereto which has a positive value range and a negative value range relative to the reference potential. The output is fed back to the inverting input and the operational amplifier has a differential amplifier having first and second field-effect transistors. The first field-effect transistor has a gate connected to the noninverting input of the operational amplifier and the second field-effect transistor has a gate connected to the inverting input. The first field-effect transistor has a threshold voltage lower than a threshold voltage of the second field-effect transistor by an amount at least equal to an amount of a value range of the analog signal voltage outside a range defined by the single supply potential and the reference potential to offset an output signal at the output to within the range defined by the single supply potential and the reference potential.
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Wells Kenneth B.
Zentrum Mikroelektronik Dresden GmbH
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