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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2001
Brian E. Merrigan, Urmston, GB;
Asad Ali, Bradford, GB;
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A variable gain amplifier includes a differential transconductor, a differential gain stage, a DC compensation circuit and first and second load resistors. The differential transconductor has first and second differential voltage signal inputs and first and second differential current outputs. The differential gain stage selectively steers current from the first and second differential current outputs to first and second variable current outputs, respectively, and to first and second compensation current outputs, respectively, based on a differential gain control input. The first and second load resistors are coupled to the first and second variable current outputs, respectively. The DC compensation circuit combines current in the first and second compensation current outputs to form a DC compensation current and couples the DC compensation current to the first and second load resistors.