Patent classifications
H03H19/006
DIGITAL VARIABLE CAPACITANCE CIRCUIT, RESONANT CIRCUIT, AMPLIFICATION CIRCUIT, AND TRANSMITTER
The present invention aims to provide a digital variable capacitance circuit, a resonant circuit, an amplification circuit, and a transmitter having a high performance. A digital variable capacitance circuit 50 according to this embodiment is a digital variable capacitance circuit including a plurality of unit capacity cells 51-0 to 51-nconnected in parallel between two output terminals OUTP and OUTN, in which the unit capacity cell 51 comprises: a first capacitor Cu1 having one end connected to one output terminal OUTP; a second capacitor Cu2 that is connected in series with the first capacitor Cu1 between the two output terminals; and an NMOS transistor M1 that is connected in parallel with the second capacitor Cu2 and is controlled in accordance with a digital control signal.