Fairchild Korea Semiconductor Ltd.

Yun-kee Lee

Dong-Hwan Kim

Jong-Tae Hwang

Eun-Chul Kang

Kyoung-Min Lee

Duck-Ki Kwon

Ju-ho Kim

The present invention relates to a driving device. The driving device according to the present invention includes a main transistor that supplies a current to a load by using a power supply, an auxiliary transistor that drops a predetermined voltage of the voltage of the power supply and transmits the dropped voltage to the main transistor in a turn-on state, and a bypass switch that transmits the voltage of the power supply to the main transistor when the auxiliary transistor is turned off.

Driving device

A temperature-independent current source is provided, which includes a current source generating a current that is proportional to the temperature and a current source generating a current that is inversely proportional to the temperature. Values of the circuit elements are selected so that the currents of the current sources add up to a substantially temperature-independent current. Related current sources utilize dual-base Darlington bipolar transistors to generate a temperature-independent current.

Temperature-independent current source circuit

A transconductance control circuit of a rail-to-rail differential input stage is described. The transconductance control circuit senses the gate-source voltages of PMOS and NMOS differential pairs, converts the sensed voltage to a current, compares the current with a reference current, and controls the currents of the PMOS and NMOS differential pairs to control the transconductance of the RTR differential input stage. Also, various types of biasing techniques and matching techniques are used to reduce the variations of the transconductance.

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Bucheon, South Korea

Yun-kee Lee