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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 1993
Filed:
Jun. 20, 1991
Aswin N Mehta, Houston, TX (US);
Texas Instruments, Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
An amplifier is arranged with an actively clamped load. In a differential amplifier, a pair of emitter-coupled transistors has loads connected between the collectors and a voltage supply. Separate clamping transistors have their collector-emitter paths connected across respective ones of the loads. A clamping control circuit, responsive to an input signal, produces a variable control signal to clamp output signal swings across the loads. A similar clamping control circuit can be used with a single-ended amplifier. Such an amplifier having an actively clamped load is useful in sense amplifier circuit arrangements in semiconductor memory arrangements used in data processing systems.