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Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 10, 2015
Applicant:

Analog Devices Global, Hamilton, BM;

Inventor:

Gerard Mora-Puchalt, Catarroja, ES;

Assignee:

Analog Devices Global, Hamilton, BM;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 1/02 (2006.01); H03F 3/45 (2006.01); H03F 1/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 1/0205 (2013.01); H03F 3/45179 (2013.01); H03F 1/303 (2013.01); H03F 2003/45008 (2013.01); H03F 2200/231 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45112 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45116 (2013.01);
Abstract

Adaptive biasing circuits for input differential pairs of a buffer or an amplifier adapt to autozero currents for discrete pair selection or continuous pair selection. The adaptive biasing circuits include a multistage device including current source and follower devices with a plurality of switches for a two-phase operation: autozero and amplifying phases. During an autozero phase, input differential pairs are isolated from subsequent stages and biasing currents are determined for autozeroing of input offset voltages. During an amplifying phase, both input differential pairs can be coupled to subsequent stages for continuous selection or a selected input differential pair can be coupled to subsequent stages for discrete selection.


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