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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 09, 2016
Applicant:
Semiconductor Components Industries, Llc, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Inventor:
Donald Claude Thelen, Jr., Bozeman, MT (US);
Assignee:
SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/08 (2006.01); H03M 1/12 (2006.01); H03F 3/45 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/124 (2013.01); H03F 3/45475 (2013.01); H03M 1/08 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45248 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45514 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45634 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, an amplifier is configured to include a pre-drive circuit that forms an estimated value of an output signal of the amplifier and forces the output to the estimated value before the amplifier forms the output signal.