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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 1992
Filed:
Feb. 28, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert G Meyer, Berkeley, CA (US);
Assignee:
North American Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
330147 ; 330256 ; 330261 ; 330289 ; 358184 ;
Abstract
In accordance with the teachings of this invention, a novel wide-band, DC coupled, single-ended voltage-to-current converter and gain control circuit is provided. Of importance, the circuit of this invention is designed to receive an input signal referenced to ground such that for zero input current, zero output current is provided. A replica bias circuit is used which allows the output signal to be a function of the input signal without offsets introduced by bias currents used throughout the circuit.