Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Specific identifiable device – circuit – or system – Unwanted signal suppression
Patent
1998-01-20
1999-11-30
Le, Dinh T.
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Specific identifiable device, circuit, or system
Unwanted signal suppression
327552, 327558, 327103, 327156, 330305, H03K 500
Patent
active
059949511
ABSTRACT:
An integrated, tuning circuit for tuning a MOSFET-C filter contains a tuning MOSFET and a differential amplifier. A current source is connected to the drain of the tuning MOSFET. The output of the amplifier is coupled to the drain of the tuning MOSFET and to a terminal that connects to the drains of the MOSFETs of the filter, so that the equivalent resistance of the filter is dependant on the current. The current source is coupled to a reference current generator, such that current supplied by the current source to the tuning MOSFET is proportional to the current supplied in the reference current generator, which in turn varies with process and environmental conditions of a capacitance. As a result, changes in process and environmental conditions oppositely affect the capacitance and resistance in the filter, resulting in a fixed RC product and fixed frequency response from the filter.
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Dina Marius
Leake William W.
Mazhar Salman
Le Dinh T.
VTC Inc.
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