Cascode Amplifier with Improved High Frequency Linearity

    公开(公告)号:US20250030390A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-23

    申请号:US18678818

    申请日:2024-05-30

    Abstract: A cascode amplifier including an amplifier transistor, a cascode transistor, and a current injection circuit. The amplifier transistor has a first current terminal receiving a first power supply voltage, a second current terminal, and a control terminal receiving an input signal. The cascode transistor has a first current terminal coupled to the second current terminal of the amplifier transistor, a second current terminal coupled to an output terminal; and a control terminal receiving a bias voltage. The current injection circuit has an input receiving the input signal, and first and second outputs coupled to the first and second current terminals of the cascode transistor, respectively. The current injection circuit is configured to present out-of-phase currents to the cascode transistor responsive to the input signal.

    Multi-bit voltage-to-delay conversion in data converter circuitry

    公开(公告)号:US12191877B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-01-07

    申请号:US17898844

    申请日:2022-08-30

    Abstract: An analog-to-digital converter circuit incorporating includes a multi-bit input buffer having a differential input and configured to generate, at a plurality of differential outputs, a plurality of residues of a differential input sample relative to a corresponding plurality of zero-crossing references. Chopping stages chop the residues, for example with a pseudo-random binary sequence. The circuit further includes zero-crossing comparators, each with differential inputs coupled to receive one of the chopped residues. The zero-crossing comparators are in an ordered sequence of zone thresholds within the input range of the circuit. Folding logic circuitry has inputs coupled to outputs of the comparators, and outputs a delay domain signal indicating a magnitude of the one of the residues relative to a nearest zone threshold. Digital stage circuitry generates a digital output word representing the received input sample responsive to the comparator outputs and the delay domain signal.

    Multi-Bit Voltage-to-Delay Conversion in Data Converter Circuitry

    公开(公告)号:US20240072820A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-29

    申请号:US17898844

    申请日:2022-08-30

    CPC classification number: H03M1/1245 H03M1/44 H03M1/50 H03M1/785

    Abstract: An analog-to-digital converter circuit incorporating includes a multi-bit input buffer having a differential input and configured to generate, at a plurality of differential outputs, a plurality of residues of a differential input sample relative to a corresponding plurality of zero-crossing references. Chopping stages chop the residues, for example with a pseudo-random binary sequence. The circuit further includes zero-crossing comparators, each with differential inputs coupled to receive one of the chopped residues. The zero-crossing comparators are in an ordered sequence of zone thresholds within the input range of the circuit. Folding logic circuitry has inputs coupled to outputs of the comparators, and outputs a delay domain signal indicating a magnitude of the one of the residues relative to a nearest zone threshold. Digital stage circuitry generates a digital output word representing the received input sample responsive to the comparator outputs and the delay domain signal.

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