Amplifiers – With control of power supply or bias voltage
Reexamination Certificate
2011-02-01
2011-02-01
Nguyen, Hieu P (Department: 2817)
Amplifiers
With control of power supply or bias voltage
C330S279000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07880542
ABSTRACT:
An amplifier includes an amplifier section having selectable signal paths to provide discrete gain settings, and logic to incrementally select the signal paths. The logic may be configured to increment the gain in response to digital gain control signals or an analog gain control signal. Another amplifier has an input section with one or more input cells and an output section with one or more output cells. Either the input section or the output section includes at least two cells that may be selected to provide discrete gain settings. A loop amplifier is configured in a feedback arrangement with the input section. The input and output sections may have multiple selectable cells to provide coarse and fine gain steps. The gain of the loop amplifier may be coordinated with the gain of the input section to provide constant bandwidth operation.
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Cowles John
Gilbert Barrie
Weigandt Todd C.
Analog Devices Inc.
Marger Johnson & McCollom PC
Nguyen Hieu P
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