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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2001
James D. Allan, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Cypress Semiconductor Corp., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An embodiment of an amplifier circuit including a power supply node and an output node is adapted to provide, during operation, an output node voltage ranging to within 0.2 volts of a power supply voltage used during the operation. An embodiment of the circuit includes a differential first stage coupled to the power supply node and providing a pair of first stage outputs for coupling to a differential second stage. In a method of providing an output voltage near the power supply voltage of an amplifier, a first stage output voltage ranging to within a transistor turn-on voltage of the power supply voltage is produced. The first stage output voltage may further be coupled to a second stage of the amplifier, where the coupling may modulate a current flow through a first pair of cascaded transistors. An output node of the amplifier may be arranged between the pair of transistors and the power supply voltage node.