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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2001
Donald Felt Kimball, San Diego, CA (US);
Joseph L. Archambault, San Diego, CA (US);
Walter Haley, Escondido, CA (US);
Lennart Mathe, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A wideband precision current sensor employs DC-coupled and AC-coupled sensing circuits to generate lower and higher frequency sense signals; which are combined to form a wideband output signal that is proportional to a wideband current of interest. The frequency response of the wideband output signal is substantially flat across a wideband frequency range, 0 to 30 MHz for example, based on matching the frequency response of the DC- and AC-coupled sensing circuits. In an exemplary application, the current sensor provides feedback to a supply voltage (Vdd) amplifier used in RF envelope elimination and restoration (EER) applications.