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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 1989
Filed:
May. 19, 1987
Mauro Merlo, Villasanta, IT;
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, US;
Abstract
A high capacity current mirror circuit comprises an operational amplifier electrically connected with its input, on the one side, to both a reference current source and a power supply pole through a first resistor, and on the other side, to said power supply pole through a second, feedback resistor, said amplifier being connected with its output to the base of a transistor, thereby supplying a current which is a mirror image of the reference current. According to the invention, that transistor is of the npn type, and in one embodiment, the transistor is connected in a Darlington configuration at the output of the operational amplifier which is of the transconductance type.