Amplifiers – With semiconductor amplifying device – Including push-pull amplifier
Patent
1995-06-06
1996-05-28
Mullins, James B.
Amplifiers
With semiconductor amplifying device
Including push-pull amplifier
330255, 330257, 330267, H03F 330, H03F 345
Patent
active
055215530
ABSTRACT:
A bipolar micro-power rail-to-rail operational amplifier has a low complexity output stage that provides a high ratio of load current to no load idle current. The output stage includes first and second output transistors of opposite conductivities whose current circuits are connected in series at the output terminal between high and low voltage supplies. A control transistor responds to the drive voltage at its base by modulating the base-emitter voltages of the first output transistor and a gain transistor in opposite directions to modulate their respective output and gain currents. A regenerative current source supplies current to the gain transistor by returning the gain current in a regenerative feedback loop to its emitter so that the current source idles at a low gain current but is capable of supplying much higher gain currents. A voltage element responds to the gain current by applying a control voltage to the base of the second output transistor so that the output transistors' output currents are unbalanced thereby generating an output current at the output terminal.
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Mullins James B.
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