High speed variable gain amplifier

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1996-04-16

1998-02-10

Mottola, Steven

Amplifiers

With semiconductor amplifying device

Including differential amplifier

330300, H03F 345, H03F 316

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active

057173605

ABSTRACT:
A MOSFET amplifier includes an amplifier stage with a boosted transconductance and a differential current mirror. The amplifier stage with a boosted transconductance includes complementary MOSFETs cross-connected with a fixed current source whereby the drain-to-source current and, therefore, the gate-to-source voltage, of the input MOSFET is fixed by the current source, while the drain-to-source current of the other MOSFET is dependent upon the input signal voltage. The differential current mirror includes a multiple branch differential input stage with a bridging resistor connected between the differential branches. The bridging resistor conducts a bridging current which equals one half of the difference between the differential branch currents, is substantially zero when the differential input voltage is zero and is nonzero when the differential input voltage is nonzero. Variable voltage gain is provided by a serial arrangement of voltage-to-current and current-to-voltage converters with a controllable current gain.

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