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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012

Filed:

Jan. 24, 2011
Applicants:

Johan Hendrik Huijsing, Schipluiden, NL;

Rong Wu, Delft, NL;

Kofi A. A. Makinwa, Delft, NL;

Inventors:

Johan Hendrik Huijsing, Schipluiden, NL;

Rong Wu, Delft, NL;

Kofi A. A. Makinwa, Delft, NL;

Assignee:

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Current-feedback instrumentation amplifiers that include dynamic element matching for the input transconductance amplifiers by periodically swapping the transconductance amplifiers between the instrumentation amplifier input and the feedback input. The instrumentation amplifiers may include a gain error reduction loop, which loop corrects differences in the gains of the input transconductance amplifiers and eliminates the ripple in the instrumentation amplifier output caused by the dynamic element matching. If chopper stabilization is used, the amplifiers may also include an offset reduction loop. Various embodiments are disclosed.


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