Differential level shifter employing current mirror

Details Differential level shifter employing current mirror Differential level shifter employing current mirror

1987-11-02

1988-09-06

Salce, Patrick R.

Electricity: power supply or regulation systems

Self-regulating

Using a three or more terminal semiconductive device as the...

323316, G05F 316

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047695900

ABSTRACT:
A differential signal input is applied through two resistors to the two sides of a dual clamping circuit and the two current outputs of a current mirror. The dual clamping circuit prevents the voltage on either output of the current mirror from going above some reference value in response to the imbalance created by the differential input signal. With one side, the high side, of the differential signal output held to this reference value by the operation of the clamping transistor on that side, the whole voltage imbalance on the input appears on the other output as a result of the operation of the current mirror. Thus, the reference level of the differential signal is shifted at the output, while the amplitude of the signal is preserved. Alternative embodiments substitute a dual clamping circuit with an opposite polarity or an averaging circuit for the dual clamping circuit described, thereby referencing the output signal to the low side or an average instead of the high side as in the preferred embodiment.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4684831 (1987-08-01), Kruast
patent: 4714871 (1987-12-01), Craft et al.
patent: 4727269 (1988-02-01), Luich

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