There is disclosed a communication cable module including: a conductive cable; a linear amplifier connected to the conductive cable; a detector for detecting presence or absence of an input signal of the conductive cable; a first circuit having a variable-current function; and a second circuit having a common-mode voltage regulating function, wherein when the input signal is not present, the variable-current function of the first circuit reduces an output current of the linear amplifier and the common-mode voltage regulating function of the second circuit regulates an output common-mode voltage of the linear amplifier.

To reduce power consumption and perform high-speed switching in boosting a voltage to a desired voltage. A semiconductor device includes a first buffer circuit, a level-shift circuit, and a second buffer circuit. The first buffer circuit includes a tri-state buffer circuit. The tri-state buffer circuit has a function of making each of an output of an input signal and an output of an inverted input signal into a resting state in response to a standby signal. The level-shift circuit includes a current mirror circuit, a differential amplifier circuit, and a switch circuit. The differential amplifier circuit has a function of controlling a current flowing through the current mirror circuit using the input signal and the inverted input signal as differential signals. The switch circuit has a function of making a current flowing through the differential amplifier circuit into a resting state in response to the standby signal.

An circuit device includes a differential circuit including differential input terminals; a differential amplifier circuit in which differential input nodes are connected to the differential input terminals; a first power supply terminal applied a first voltage to; a second power supply terminal applied a second voltage to; a common terminal; a first resistive element of which one end is connected to one differential input terminal and another end is connected to the common terminal; a second resistive element of which one end is connected to the first supply terminal and another end is connected to the common terminal; a third resistive element of which one end is connected to one differential input terminal and another end is connected to the second supply terminal; a bonding wire, and a capacitor of which one end is connected to the second supply terminal and another end is connected to the common terminal

A voltage driver circuit for an output stage of an operational amplifier, or other circuits, includes a level shifter and an output driver including a source follower and a common source amplifier in a push-pull configuration. The level shifter generates a node voltage as a function of an input voltage on the input node. The output driver including a first transistor having a control terminal receiving the node voltage, and connected between a supply voltage and an output node, and a second transistor having a control terminal receiving the input voltage from the input node, and connected between the output node and a reference voltage, wherein the first and second transistors have a common conductivity type.

A transmitter (TX) circuit harvesting power from a power supply of a receiver (RX) circuit is disclosed herein. The TX circuit for data transmission over a differential channel comprises a driver circuit coupled with the differential channel across a first pair of resistors. One terminal of each resistor of the first pair coupled together at a common mode voltage node. The differential channel is series terminated at the RX circuit by a second pair of resistors to a power supply node of the RX circuit. The driver circuit includes a differential pair and a current source drawing current from the power supply node of the RX circuit. A pre-driver circuit coupled with the driver circuit provides an output of the pre-driver circuit as an input to the driver circuit. At least the pre-driver circuit is powered from the common mode voltage node of the driver circuit.

There is disclosed a communication cable module including: a conductive cable; a linear amplifier connected to the conductive cable; a detector for detecting presence or absence of an input signal of the conductive cable; a first circuit having a variable-current function; and a second circuit having a common-mode voltage regulating function, wherein when the input signal is not present, the variable-current function of the first circuit reduces an output current of the linear amplifier and the common-mode voltage regulating function of the second circuit regulates an output common-mode voltage of the linear amplifier.

A transmitter (TX) circuit harvesting power from a power supply of a receiver (RX) circuit is disclosed herein. The TX circuit for data transmission over a differential channel comprises a driver circuit coupled with the differential channel across a first pair of resistors. One terminal of each resistor of the first pair coupled together at a common mode voltage node. The differential channel is series terminated at the RX circuit by a second pair of resistors to a power supply node of the RX circuit. The driver circuit includes a differential pair and a current source drawing current from the power supply node of the RX circuit. A pre-driver circuit coupled with the driver circuit provides an output of the pre-driver circuit as an input to the driver circuit. At least the pre-driver circuit is powered from the common mode voltage node of the driver circuit.

To reduce power consumption and perform high-speed switching in boosting a voltage to a desired voltage. A semiconductor device includes a first buffer circuit, a level-shift circuit, and a second buffer circuit. The first buffer circuit includes a tri-state buffer circuit. The tri-state buffer circuit has a function of making each of an output of an input signal and an output of an inverted input signal into a resting state in response to a standby signal. The level-shift circuit includes a current mirror circuit, a differential amplifier circuit, and a switch circuit. The differential amplifier circuit has a function of controlling a current flowing through the current mirror circuit using the input signal and the inverted input signal as differential signals. The switch circuit has a function of making a current flowing through the differential amplifier circuit into a resting state in response to the standby signal.

Discloses is a push-pull RF power amplifier circuit, comprising a first differential amplifier transistor, a second differential amplifier transistor, a first balun and a capacitor network. In this application, the primary coil of first balun is improved into a structure in which the first and second coil segment are connected with each other, and the capacitor network is connected at the joint of the first and second coil segment. The capacitor network and first balun jointly participate in impedance matching of the push-pull RF power amplifier circuit, so that the push-pull power amplifier system can support larger bandwidth while achieving impedance matching. There is no need to separately connect capacitors between the output end of the first differential amplifier transistor and the first input end of the first balun, or between the output end of the second differential amplifier transistor and the second input end of the first balun.

The disclosed semiconductor amplifier circuit addresses distortion reduction in audio signal amplification by incorporating semiconductor devices with substrate loss pickup elements. The circuit includes a differential amplifier setup using semiconductor devices for initial signal processing and a cascode stage with semiconductor devices equipped with substrate loss pickup elements for mitigating substrate loss currents. Bias networks set operating points for linear amplification, complemented by a power supply connection for operational voltage. Substrate loss pickup elements are configured to reduce distortion by capturing uncollected charge carriers, enhancing audio fidelity.