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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 1999
Filed:
Oct. 22, 1997
Germano Nicollini, Piacenza, IT;
Daniel Senderowicz, Berkeley, CA (US);
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;
Abstract
The circuit of a two-stage fully differential amplifier includes a differential input stage, two output stages and a common mode feedback circuit coupled to the output nodes of the amplifier. The amplifier also includes a non-inverting stage coupled to a respective output node of the differential input stage for driving the respective output stage. Each auxiliary non-inverting stage of the two branches of the fully differential amplifier uses as a biasing current generator, the load device of the branch of the differential input stage to the output of which the non-inverting stage is coupled. The fully differential amplifier permits the use of a null-consumption common mode feedback circuit as normally employed only in a single stage fully differential amplifier.