Amplifiers – Signal feedback – Combined with control of bias voltage of signal amplifier
Patent
1975-05-27
1977-05-17
Mullins, James B.
Amplifiers
Signal feedback
Combined with control of bias voltage of signal amplifier
330 30D, H03F 345
Patent
active
040244628
ABSTRACT:
A differential amplifier comprises a pair of Darlington configuration amplifier halves operating in the Class A mode. Each Darlington half is provided with a feedback, difference amplifier, which functions as an analog comparator, and an emitter current control resistor to precisely control the emitter current and thereby to control the idling or quiescent current passing through a load in the collector circuit. Each difference amplifier is connected to its respective half by coupling one of its two inputs to the control resistor in the Darlington emitter circuit and coupling the other input to a source of reference voltage. The respective emitter current control resistors are precisely matched. In operation, the output of each difference amplifier drives the base circuit of its respective Darlington half. The difference amplifier maintains the voltage at the terminal of the emitter current control resistor at a value substantially equal to the reference voltage, thereby biasing the Darlington half at a constant value representative of emitter current. Because the control resistors are precisely matched, the emitter currents are equal; and, because the gain of the Darlington halves is very high, the load or collector currents are substantially equal to the respective emitter currents and to one another. Thus, a load driven by both collector circuits is provided with a substantially zero d.c. offset current.
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Highnote Jerry Lee
O'Day Richard Lewis
International Business Machines - Corporation
Mullins James B.
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