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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2006
Jipeng LI, Nashua, NH (US);
Matthew Courcy, Fremont, NH (US);
Gabriele Manganaro, Boxborough, MA (US);
Jipeng Li, Nashua, NH (US);
Matthew Courcy, Fremont, NH (US);
Gabriele Manganaro, Boxborough, MA (US);
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A switched-capacitor amplifier circuit including first and second pairs of sampling capacitors for sampling a pair of input signals includes a voltage regulator coupled to receive a first reference voltage and generate a first regulated output voltage related to the first reference voltage and independent of a first power supply voltage; a clock signal generator generating first and second clock signals referenced to the first power supply voltage and third and fourth clock signals referenced to the first regulated output voltage; and a first set of switches coupling the bottom plates of the sampling capacitors to the amplifier, the first set of switches being controlled by the third and fourth clock signals. The circuit may further include a second set of switches coupling the top plates of the sampling capacitors to the input signals, the second set of switches being controlled by the first and second clock signals.