In optical receivers, cancelling the DC component of the incoming current is a key to increasing the receiver's effectiveness, and therefore increase the channel capacity. Ideally, the receiver includes a DC cancellation circuit for removing the DC component; however, in differential receivers an offset may be created between the output voltage components caused by the various amplifiers. Accordingly, an offset cancellation circuit is required to determine the offset and to modify the DC cancellation circuit accordingly.

A continuous time linear equalization (CTLE) circuit is disclosed. The CTLE circuit includes an input port, an output port, a first differential transistor pair coupled to the input port and the output port and a second differential transistor pair. The CTLE circuit further includes a first degenerative impedance circuit coupled between the first differential transistor pair and ground. The first degenerative impedance includes switchable components to vary impedance of the first degenerative impedance circuit. The CTLE circuit also includes a second degenerative impedance circuit coupled between the second differential transistor pair and ground. The second degenerative impedance includes switchable components to vary impedance of the second degenerative impedance circuit, wherein the resistive part of the impedance of the first degenerative impedance circuit is equal to the impedance of the second degenerative impedance circuit.

An apparatus such as an electronic circuit includes an input operable to receive an input signal; a dynamic common mode adjustor operable to: i) derive a differential signal from the received input signal, and ii) control an offset of the differential signal as a function of the received input signal to produce an offset differential signal; and an output operable to output the offset differential signal. In one arrangement, the offset differential signal outputted from the output includes a first signal and a second signal; a difference between the second signal and the first signal proportionally varies with respect to the received input signal.

To provide a semiconductor device that makes it possible to reduce a cell circuit area and an increase in resolution. There is provided a semiconductor device including: a first region in which readout cells are arranged in an array form, the readout cells having one of input transistors included in a differential amplifier: and a second region in which reference cells are arranged in an array form, the reference cells having another input transistor included in the differential amplifier, the first region and the second region being separated from each other.

An apparatus such as an electronic circuit includes an input operable to receive an input signal; a dynamic common mode adjustor operable to: i) derive a differential signal from the received input signal, and ii) control an offset of the differential signal as a function of the received input signal to produce an offset differential signal; and an output operable to output the offset differential signal. In one arrangement, the offset differential signal outputted from the output includes a first signal and a second signal; a difference between the second signal and the first signal proportionally varies with respect to the received input signal.

In optical receivers, cancelling the DC component of the incoming current is a key to increasing the receiver's effectiveness, and therefore increase the channel capacity. Ideally, the receiver includes a DC cancellation circuit for removing the DC component; however, in differential receivers an offset may be created between the output voltage components caused by the various amplifiers. Accordingly, an offset cancellation circuit is required to determine the offset and to modify the DC cancellation circuit accordingly.

A read-out circuitry for acquiring a multi-channel biopotential signal, comprises: a plurality of read-out signal channels, each receiving an input signal from a unique signal electrode; a reference channel receiving a reference signal from a reference electrode; wherein each read-out signal channel and the reference channel comprises a channel amplifier connected to receive the input signal in a first input node and with an output node connected to a second input node via a channel feedback loop; wherein each signal channel amplifier comprises a capacitor between the second input nodes of the signal channel amplifier and the reference channel amplifier, and wherein each signal channel feedback loop and the reference channel feedback loop comprise a filter.

A voltage regulator and a power supply are provided. The voltage regulator includes an operational amplifier and an offset voltage control module. The offset voltage control module includes one or more stages of regulation branches connected in parallel, and controls an offset voltage of the operational amplifier with the one or more stages of regulation branches to regulate the output voltage. The offset voltage control module also includes a bandgap reference generation circuit, configured to generate a reference voltage irrelevant to a temperature coefficient that is received by the operational amplifier from the input terminal, wherein the bandgap reference generation circuit comprises at least one of: a V.sub.GS-based bandgap reference generation circuit having a full CMOS reference offset structure, a PTAT unit-based and V.sub.GS-based bandgap reference generation circuit having a full CMOS reference offset structure, and a PTAT unit-based and BJT-based bandgap reference generation circuit having a complementary structure.

A signal transfer circuit includes a transmission circuit, a conversion circuit and a sensing output circuit. The transmission circuit outputs a driving signal to a signal line. The conversion circuit receives an input signal that is a single-ended signal transferred through the signal line and converts the input signal to a differential signal including a first output amplified signal and a second output amplified signal. The first output amplified signal swings downwardly from a first output DC level and the second output amplified signal swings upwardly from a second output DC level that is lower than the first output DC level. The sensing output circuit generates an output signal based on the differential signal. The number of the signal lines is reduced without decrease in performance of signal transfer, and sizes of the signal transfer circuit and the device including the signal transfer circuit are reduced.

In optical receivers, cancelling the DC component of the incoming current is a key to increasing the receiver's effectiveness, and therefore increase the channel capacity. Ideally, the receiver includes a DC cancellation circuit for removing the DC component; however, in differential receivers an offset may be created between the output voltage components caused by the various amplifiers. Accordingly, an offset cancellation circuit is required to determine the offset and to modify the DC cancellation circuit accordingly.