At&t Bell Laboratories

Thayamkulangara R Viswanathan

Suk K Kim

A voltage generator circuit consists essentially of two separate groups of serially connected semiconductor junctions with one group having one more junction than the other, two groups of constant current sources, and a differential operational amplifier. The circuit generates a reference voltage which in one embodiment is close to the bandgap voltage of silicon and is essentially constant over an operating temperature range of 25-85 degrees C. and does not require the trimming (adjusting) of resistor values. This circuit is particularly useful in CMOS CODECs. The circuit is designed such that the input offset voltage of an operational amplifier is not multiplied by the gain of the amplifier.

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Waterloo, Canada

Thayamkulangara R Viswanathan