Integrated unit gain output stage

Details Integrated unit gain output stage Integrated unit gain output stage

1995-02-27

2000-11-21

Wells, Kenneth B.

Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and

Signal converting, shaping, or generating

Current driver

327112, 327309, 330262, H03K 300

Patent

active

061508535

ABSTRACT:
The operation of externally connected output power transistors of a class AB amplifier is controlled without employing any external sensing resistance of the output current by driving an externally connected power transistor through a level shifting buffer and employing a limiting network composed of an integrated transistor driven by the output of a signal amplifying stage and a resistance connected in series with its drain. The buffer stage shifts the level of the driving signal of the external power transistor by a value equal to the threshold voltage of the integrated transistor of the limiting network thus ensuring the turn-off of the external power transistor under quiescent conditions.

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IEEE Transactions On Consumer Electronics, vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 217-222. Aug., 1992.

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