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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard William Ezell, Carrollton, TX (US);
Assignee:
Microtune, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
330252 ; 330149 ;
Abstract
A high linearity transconductance stage is arranged with a loss cancellation method to remove the nonlinearity of a typical transconductance circuit. The loss cancellation method uses a series of transistors and resistors to supply a controlled feedback current to cancel the result of the change (.DELTA.) in voltage across the input of the transistor used to provide the transconductance for the transconductance stage of a circuit, such as an amplifier, a mixer or other active circuit.