Balanced transconductor and electronic device
AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorJohn B. Hughes
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Abstract
A balanced transconductor having a pair of voltage inputs and a pair of current outputs comprises a pair of single-ended transconductors, one in each signal path and a cancellation network. The cancellation network cancels at the inputs to the single-ended transconductors a common mode voltage appearing at the voltage inputs so that no common mode output current results. The cancellation network may comprise four half-size single-ended transconductors drawing half the supply current of full-size single-ended transconductors.
Claims3
A balanced transconductor comprising a first signal path between a first input terminal and a first output terminal, a second signal path between a second input terminal and a second output terminal, the first signal path comprising a first single-ended transconductor means and the second signal path comprising a second single-ended transconductor means, and a cancellation network coupled to the first and second signal paths, wherein the cancellation network is configured to provide cancellation at input ports of the first and second single-ended transconductor means of a common-mode voltage applied to the first and second input terminals.
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