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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2000
Paul W. Chung, San Jose, CA (US);
John T. Contreras, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An accurate current source with an adjustable temperature dependence. This type of current source is used in silicon Integrated Circuit (IC) designs requiring supporting reference-voltage sources and/or reference-current sources which may be designed with or without temperature dependence. The circuit generates an accurate current with temperature independence along with another accurate current source with temperature dependence using only one precision external resistors. For the temperature-dependent current source, the temperature dependence can be controlled by setting a temperature dependence factor (TDF).