Amplifiers – With semiconductor amplifying device – Including differential amplifier
Patent
1980-02-11
1982-07-13
Mullins, James B.
Amplifiers
With semiconductor amplifying device
Including differential amplifier
330257, 330288, H03F 345
Patent
active
043397280
ABSTRACT:
An integrated circuit is employed to provide a high gain signal amplifier having an automatic gain control function and an output suitable for driving signal detection circuitry in a radio receiver. The circuit operates at the receiver intermediate frequency. A gain controlled cascode amplifier drives one input of a high gain differential amplifier. The other input is returned to a reference potential. A pair of current mirrors are coupled into the differential amplifier to provide a pair of single ended outputs. One output drives a peak rectifying diode to operate the automatic gain control and the other output drives a signal detection circuit. The current mirrors are ratioed so that the automatic gain control threshold is a predetermined fixed multiple of the signal threshold.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4143331 (1979-03-01), Page
Mullins James B.
National Semiconductor Corporation
Schulte Neil B.
Sheridan James A.
Woodward Gail W.
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