摘要 |
A circuit for driving a cathode ray tube (CRT) with frequency compensation. Specifically, the present invention discloses a CRT driver circuit comprising a cascode gain stage for amplifying an input voltage. A cascode push-pull output stage generates a video output signal from the input voltage at an output node. The video output signal drives a coupled CRT and corresponding CRT cathode. A biasing node within the push-pull output stage has a biasing voltage that is always higher than the output voltage of the video output signal. Electrodes of a vertical-integrated PNP transistor are adaptively coupled to the biasing node, output node, and the cascode gain stage to provide two parallel feedback paths for frequency compensation without any cathode current leakage. As such, a current detection circuit accurately measures cathode current from a CRT that is driven by the CRT driver circuit.
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