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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
James T Sundby, Tracy, CA (US);
Assignee:
Exar Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
330253 ; 330258 ;
Abstract
A CMOS opamp having large sinking and sourcing currents, and capable of driving high capacitive loads. The CMOS opamp improves a prior art OPAMP that includes a folded cascode gain stage and a class A/B output stage. By inserting a source follower stage between the folded cascode stage and the output stage, the opamp can drive very large capacitive loads that can also compensate the opamp. By further modifying the output stage, the ability to sink load current is vastly improved.