Electronic circuit performing gain control and gain compression to improve characteristic of analog output and electronic device including the same

Abstract

An electronic circuit includes a peak detector, a gain controller, and a compressor. The peak detector detects a peak level from a digital input. The gain controller outputs a digital gain with regard to increasing the peak level to a target level, The compressor provides the gain controller with a compressed gain which is to be output as the digital gain, based on the detected peak level. In a compression interval where the peak level is greater than a threshold level, the output digital gain increases as the peak level decreases. The compressor generates the compressed gain such that a ratio of an increment of the output digital gain to a decrement of the peak level in the compression interval is less than a reference ratio.