摘要:
A capacitive load is charged and/or discharged in sequential current steps, thereby rapidly changing the charge on the capacitive load. The stepwise change in load current can be effected by a plurality of parallel output driver stages each of which is much smaller, and thus generates less noise, than a single output driver stage with the same overall current carrying capacity. The output driver stages are connected to the load so as to be sequentially actuated responsive to an input signal representative of the binary state to be coupled by the output drive to the load. The input signal is connected to the respective output driver stages by predriver stages. Except for the lowest order predriver stage, each predriver stage has an enable circuit that switches on the driver stage at the desired point in the transition interval between binary states.
摘要:
A system is provided for generating a ramping signal. The system includes a plurality of storage circuits each including an input and an output. The output of a previous storage circuit is connected to the input of a next storage circuit. The storage circuits are configured to propagate a first enable signal based on a first control signal. The system also includes a plurality of first current generating circuits. Each first current generating circuit is coupled to the output of a corresponding storage circuit to receive the propagated first enable signal. The first current generating circuits are configured to generate a first current signal based on the propagated first enable signal.