Bidirectional leakage compensation circuits for use in integrated circuits and method therefor

An integrated circuit having a leakage compensation circuit, the leakage compensation circuit comprising:

• a buffer amplifier having an input coupled to a sense node, and an output;
• a link coupling element having an input coupled to said output of said buffer amplifier, and an output, wherein said link coupling element is unidirectional in a direction from said input to said output thereof;
• and
• a leakage compensation element having a first current terminal coupled to said sense node, a control terminal coupled to said output of said link coupling element, and a second current terminal coupled to a reference voltage terminal, wherein said leakage compensation element comprises an anti-series diode.

A method of performing leakage compensation for leakage currents flowing to or from a sense node, comprising:

• buffering a voltage on the sense node and providing a buffered voltage to a middle node in response to said buffering;
• unidirectionally coupling said buffered voltage to a control node;
• and
• biasing a leakage compensation element having a first current terminal coupled to said sense node and a second current terminal coupled to a reference voltage terminal by coupling a control terminal of said leakage compensation element to said control node, wherein said biasing said leakage compensation element comprises biasing an anti-series diode.