发明名称 |
Voltage to current converter for high frequency applications |
摘要 |
A fully integrated voltage-to-current converter consisting of a two-stage direct amplifier with an overall feedback network having an active differential current-to-voltage converter. The first stage of the two-stage direct amplifier is a voltage-to-voltage converter receiving an input voltage signal, and the second stage is a transconductance amplifier supplying an output current. In the overall feedback network, a voltage measure of the output current is applied to a differential amplifier which cancels out all DC components and amplifies only the AC components. The amplified AC components are fed back to the input. The feedforward gain of the two-stage direct amplifier and the feedback gain of the overall feedback network may be separately adjusted. The differential amplifier includes a local resistive feedback network such that the local gain of the differential amplifier is determined by resistor values and does not introduce any non-linear elements. The overall feedback network gain of the voltage-to-current converter may be adjusted without affecting the direct amplifier solely by varying the local resistive feedback network of the differential amplifier.
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申请公布号 |
US5815012(A) |
申请公布日期 |
1998.09.29 |
申请号 |
US19960691562 |
申请日期 |
1996.08.02 |
申请人 |
ATMEL CORPORATION |
发明人 |
RIVOIR, ROBERTO;MALOBERTI, FRANCO |
分类号 |
H03F1/34;G05F1/56;H03F3/34;(IPC1-7):H02M11/00 |
主分类号 |
H03F1/34 |
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