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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 30, 1996
Gregg Douglas Croft, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Sang-Gug Lee, Kyungbook, KR;
Steven Robert Jost, Palm Bay, FL (US);
Harris Corporation, Melbourne, FL (US);
Abstract
A current generator and method of making a current generator in which two resistors are provided, each in series with one of two transistors in the generator, and in which one of the resistors is trimmed if the reference current is too large and the other is trimmed if the reference current is too small, thereby obviating the problems of the prior art in which one resistor must be trimmed by a potentially large and unacceptable amount. The two resistors are formed with a distribution of resistances which is centered on their corresponding target resistance values so that the number of resistors to be trimmed and the amount of trimming per resistor are reduced. The appropriate target resistances of the resistors can be determined if a maximum trim factor is set. The method is insensitive to variations in the process by which the resistances of the resistors are initially set and reduces the variability of the untrimmed reference current with respect to resistor critical dimensions.