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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2002
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Daniel Shkap, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/45 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/45 ;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a variable gain amplifier that may be used in RF telecommunication applications to obtain amplification of analog signals. It is also directed toward minimizing the effect that temperature variations have on the gain of the amplifier. A variable gain RF amplifier, according to this invention, has a differential amplifier and a gain control circuit. The gain control circuit has multiple transistors configured to affect a linear, variable resistor and to substantially distribute a uniform voltage potential across each transistor of the effective variable resistor.