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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 1986
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1983
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A D/A converter comprises one or both of a first D/A converter and a second D/A converter. In the first D/A converter, n (n.gtoreq.2) semiconductor devices are connected in parallel to each other between a power supply and a load resistor, gates of (n-1) semiconductor devices (called a first group of semiconductor devices) of the n semiconductor devices are connected to a common gate bias potential source, those semiconductor devices of the first group of semiconductor devices which are equal in number to the number determined by a content of high order bits of an input digital data are turned on to supply a current to the load resistor, and a voltage drop across the load resistor is outputted as an analog quantity representing the high order bits. In the second D/A converter, a gate voltage determined by a content of low order bits of the input digital data is supplied to a gate of the remaining one (called a second semiconductor device) of the n semiconductor device to supply a current to the load resistor, and a voltage drop across the load resistor is outputted as an analog quantity representing the low order bits.