Amplifiers – With semiconductor amplifying device – Including differential amplifier
Patent
1980-11-24
1982-11-23
Mullins, James B.
Amplifiers
With semiconductor amplifying device
Including differential amplifier
330257, H03F 345, H04N 9535
Patent
active
043607861
ABSTRACT:
A variable-gain differential amplifier comprises a first long-tailed transistor pair between the bases of which the input signal is applied. The emitter-collector paths of the transistors of the first pair are included in the tails of second and third long-tailed transistor pairs respectively, and load resistors between the lower terminals of which the output signal appears are included in the respective collector circuits of one transistor of each of the second and third pairs, and hence in the collector circuits of the respective transistors of the first pair. The second and third pairs are controlled by a gain control signal thereby diverting a variable proportion of the collector signal currents of the transistors of the first pair away from the load resistors (17,18) and hence varying the gain of the circuit. In order that variations in the gain control signal should not affect the d.c. level at the amplifier output the collectors of the other transistors of the second and third pairs are commoned and connected to the input of a current splitter the two output currents of which are fed to the respective load resistors, thereby compensating for any changes in the standing currents through the load resistors which would otherwise be produced by changes in the gain control voltage.
Briody Thomas A.
Mullins James B.
Streeter William J.
U.S. Philips Corporation
Wan Gene
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