H03F2203/45152

DEVICES AND METHODS FOR OFFSET CANCELLATION
20210313933 · 2021-10-07 ·

An offset-cancellation circuit having a first amplification stage with a gain of the first amplification stage and configured to receive an offset voltage of a first amplifier. A storage element is configured to be coupled to and decoupled from the first amplification stage and configured to store a potential difference output by the first amplification stage. The potential difference is determined by the offset voltage of the first amplifier and the gain of the first amplification stage. A second amplification stage is coupled to the storage element and configured to receive the potential difference from the storage element when the storage element is decoupled from the first amplification stage and configured to deliver an offset-cancellation current. The offset-cancellation current is determined by the potential difference and a gain of the second amplification stage.

Highly linear input and output rail-to-rail amplifier
11082012 · 2021-08-03 · ·

An amplifier includes input transconductors that receive an input signal, the input signal having a voltage swing. A supply side current mirror generates a gate voltage as a function of input signal voltage and current sources that provide a bias current of the input transconductors as a function of the gate voltage to maintain a constant bias current across the voltage swing of the input signal. Resistors average source voltages of the transconductance-cancelling transconductors to provide an average source voltage and apply the average source voltage to wells of input devices of the transconductance-cancelling transconductors to reduce back bias effect. The input devices are laid out in a same well and have a common centroid to cancel out process mismatches. A first I-DAC trims an offset of first transconductors, and a second I-DAC trims an offset of second transconductors to attain low offsets across a rail-to-rail input common mode range.

Current integrator for OLED panel

The present invention includes a current integrator for an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel. The current integrator includes an operational amplifier, which includes an output stage. The output stage, coupled to an output terminal of the current integrator, includes a first output transistor, a second output transistor, a first stack transistor and a second stack transistor. The first stack transistor is coupled between the first output transistor and the output terminal. The second stack transistor is coupled between the second output transistor and the output terminal.

APPARATUS FOR INTEGRATED OFFSET VOLTAGE FOR PHOTODIODE CURRENT AMPLIFIER
20210131865 · 2021-05-06 ·

An example apparatus includes: a first voltage source, a first amplifier having a noninverting input adapted to be coupled to a photodiode anode and coupled to the first voltage source, an inverting input adapted to be coupled to a photodiode cathode, and an output, a first resistor coupled to the first amplifier inverting input and to the first amplifier output, a first capacitor coupled to the inverting input of the first amplifier and the first amplifier output, and a second voltage source different from the first voltage source. There is a second amplifier having a noninverting input, an inverting input and an output. The noninverting input is coupled to the output of the first amplifier, the inverting input is coupled to the second voltage source, and there is a second resistor coupled to the inverting input and the output of the second amplifier.

Sampled moving average notch filter for ripple reduction in chopper stabilized operational amplifiers

A chopper-stabilized amplifier includes a first transconductance amplifier and a first chopper circuit coupled to an input of the first transconductance amplifier. A second chopper circuit is coupled to an output of the first transconductance amplifier. The chopper-stabilized amplifier also includes second and third transconductance amplifiers having inputs coupled to the output of the first transconductance amplifier. The second transconductance amplifier produces an output responsive to a first notch clock signal having a first phase relative to the chopping of the second chopper circuit. The third transconductance amplifier produces an output responsive to a second notch clock signal having a second phase relative to the first phase. The output signals produced by the second and third transconductance amplifiers are added to filter ripple noise at the outputs of the second and third transconductance amplifiers.

HIGHLY LINEAR INPUT AND OUTPUT RAIL-TO-RAIL AMPLIFIER
20200358406 · 2020-11-12 ·

An amplifier includes input transconductors that receive an input signal, the input signal having a voltage swing. A supply side current mirror generates a gate voltage as a function of input signal voltage and current sources that provide a bias current of the input transconductors as a function of the gate voltage to maintain a constant bias current across the voltage swing of the input signal. Resistors average source voltages of the transconductance-cancelling transconductors to provide an average source voltage and apply the average source voltage to wells of input devices of the transconductance-cancelling transconductors to reduce back bias effect. The input devices are laid out in a same well and have a common centroid to cancel out process mismatches. A first I-DAC trims an offset of first transconductors, and a second I-DAC trims an offset of second transconductors to attain low offsets across a rail-to-rail input common mode range.

Pseudo-resistor structure, a closed-loop operational amplifier circuit and a bio-potential sensor
10811542 · 2020-10-20 · ·

A pseudo-resistor structure, comprises: a first and a second PMOS transistor or PN diode configured as two-terminal devices, wherein the positive terminal of the first PMOS transistor or PN diode is connected to the positive terminal of the second PMOS transistor or PN diode, and wherein the negative terminal of the first PMOS transistor or PN diode is connected to an input (A) of the pseudo-resistor structure and wherein the negative terminal of the second PMOS transistor or PN diode is connected to an output (C) of the pseudo-resistor structure, and a dummy transistor or dummy diode connected to the input (A), wherein the dummy transistor or dummy diode is further connected to a bias voltage for compensating a leakage current through the first and the second PMOS transistors or PN diodes. A closed-loop operational amplifier circuit comprising the pseudo-resistor structure is provided. Also, a bio-potential sensor comprising the closed-loop operational amplifier circuit is provided.

Current integrator and related signal processing system

A current integrator includes an operational amplifier, an integration capacitor and an offset cancelation capacitor. The operational amplifier includes a first input stage and a second input stage. The first input stage is coupled to an input terminal of the current integrator. The integration capacitor is coupled between the first input stage of the operational amplifier and an output terminal of the current integrator. The offset cancelation capacitor is coupled to the second input stage of the operational amplifier.

Amplifier offset cancellation using amplifier supply voltage

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for power supply rejection for an amplifier may include generating a correction signal by multiplying a quantity indicative of a power supply voltage of the amplifier by a transfer function defining a response from the power supply voltage of the amplifier to an output signal of the amplifier and subtracting the correction signal from a signal within a signal path of a circuit comprising the amplifier.

Optical receiver, active optical cable, and control method for optical receiver
10644807 · 2020-05-05 · ·

The present disclosure includes a photodetector element (11) that converts an optical signal into an electric current signal; a transimpedance amplifier (12a) that converts the electric current signal into a voltage signal; a differential amplifier (12d) that converts the voltage signal into a differential signal, by performing differential amplification of a difference between the voltage signal and a threshold voltage; an LOS detection circuit that detects a no-signal section of the optical signal; and an MCU that repeatedly executes offset cancellation processing, the offset cancellation processing including threshold voltage change processing in which the threshold voltage is changed such that an offset voltage of the differential signal is reduced, the MCU 13 skipping the threshold voltage change processing in the no-signal section.