Field Effect Transistor Circuits
OwnerRonald Quaninventor
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Abstract
A number of field effect transistor circuits include voltage controlled attenuators or voltage controlled processing circuits. Example circuits include modulators, lower distortion variable voltage controlled resistors, sine wave to triangle wave converters, and or servo controlled biasing circuits.
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A circuit for providing low distortion voltage controlled resistance of an enhancement mode field effect transistor having a drain terminal, a gate terminal, and a source terminal comprising:
- an amplifier having an input terminal and an output terminal;
- coupling the drain terminal of the enhancement mode field effect transistor to the input terminal of the amplifier;
- coupling the output terminal of the amplifier to a first terminal of a first resistor wherein the first resistor includes a second terminal;
- coupling the second terminal of the first resistor to the gate terminal of the enhancement mode field effect transistor;
- coupling the gate terminal of the enhancement mode field effect transistor to a first terminal of a second resistor wherein the second resistor includes a second terminal;
- coupling a first terminal of a control voltage source to the second terminal of the second resistor wherein the control voltage source includes a second terminal;
- coupling the second terminal of the control voltage source to a ground terminal;
- coupling the source terminal of the enhancement mode field effect transistor to the ground terminal;
- providing the low distortion voltage controlled resistance via the drain terminal of the enhancement mode field effect transistor and via the ground terminal and by supplying a predetermined voltage from the control voltage source;
- wherein the low distortion voltage controlled resistance via the drain terminal of the enhancement mode field effect transistor and the ground terminal provides lower nonlinear distortion compared to when the first terminal of the first resistor is connected to the drain terminal of the enhancement mode field effect transistor instead of the first terminal of the first resistor coupled to the output terminal of the amplifier.
A sine wave to triangle wave converter circuit including a first field effect transistor, a second field effect transistor, a third field effect transistor, and fourth field effect transistor wherein each of the first, second, third, and fourth field effect transistors include a drain terminal, a gate terminal, and source terminal comprising:
- a sinusoidal signal source coupled the gate terminals of the first and third field effect transistors;
- coupling to a first voltage potential the gate terminals of the second and fourth field transistors;
- coupling the drain terminals of the first field effect transistor to the second field effect transistor;
- coupling the drain terminals of the third field transistor to the fourth field effect transistor;
- coupling the source terminals of the first field effect transistor to the fourth field effect transistor;
- coupling the source terminals of the second field transistor to the third field effect transistor;
- coupling a first current source to the source terminals of the first field effect transistor and to the fourth field effect transistor;
- coupling a second current source to the source terminals of the second field effect transistor and to the third field effect transistor;
- providing a first output current terminal coupled to the drain terminals of the first and second field effect transistors;
- setting the current of the first current source not equal to the current of the second current source;
- providing a triangle waveform current at the first output current terminal with the sinusoidal signal source.
A bias servo circuit to provide substantially equal resistance between two or more field effect transistors with each field effect transistor having a drain terminal, a gate terminal, and a source terminal, wherein the equal resistance between the two or more field effect transistors include the resistance between the drain terminal and source terminal of each of the field effect transistors comprising:
- the two more field effect transistors are substantially identical wherein the two or more field effect transistors includes a reference field effect transistor and a second field effect transistor;
- a reference voltage source that includes a direct current voltage;
- coupling the reference voltage source via a load resistor to the drain terminal of the reference field effect transistor;
- coupling the drain of the reference field effect transistor to a (+) input terminal of an amplifier;
- coupling the reference voltage source to a (−) input terminal of the amplifier;
- coupling an output terminal of the amplifier to the gate terminal of the reference field effect transistor;
- coupling the output terminal of the amplifier to the gate terminal of the second field effect transistor;
- wherein the resistance between drain terminal and source terminal of the reference field effect transistor is substantially equal in resistor between the drain terminal and source terminal of the second transistor.
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