FULLY DIFFERENTIAL, VARIABLE-GAIN AMPLIFIER AND A MULTIDIMENSIONAL AMPLIFIER ARRANGEMENT

摘要

A fully differential, variable gain amplifier comprising an input, an intermediate stage and an output stage, the input stage (100) being coupled to the intermediate stage (200) and the intermediate stage being coupled to the output stage (300). The input stage comprises an amplifier with local feedback means and voltage-to-current conversion means. The intermediate stage has nodes that are shared by the input stage, the output stage and the intermediate stage, respectively, which are connected to the reference node via a relatively low impedance branch. The intermediate stage further comprises current controlled networks coupled to the common nodes via a first feedback branches and branches to the input stage via second feedback branches. The amplifier has means for controlling the gain and the bandwidth independently of one another.