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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 16, 1997
Robert A Blauschild, Los Altos, CA (US);
Philips Electronics North America Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Mobility in an FET is used as a time standard to develop a resistance (or a transconductance or a current) reference which may be fully integrated and which is temperature stable to an arbitrary desired accuracy (or which varies with temperature in a desired fashion). The large temperature dependence of mobility is compensated (or adjusted to a desired variation characteristic) by applying a gate bias voltage having a predetermined variation in value with respect to temperature. In one embodiment the bias voltage of the FET is given a temperature dependence which results in the drain current of the FET being substantially constant with respect to temperature. This current is then used to charge or discharge a capacitor, yielding a precise R-C product which may be implemented fully in integrated form.