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US 2022/0286100 A1Published application
Comparator, photoelectric conversion device, and apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideo Kobayashi, So Hasegawa
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Abstract
A comparator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first differential transistor and a second differential transistor forming a differential pair, a first load transistor and a second load transistor respectively provided corresponding to the first differential transistor and the second differential transistor, and a first cascode transistor connected in cascode between the first differential transistor and the first load transistor.
Claims18
A comparator comprising:
- a first differential transistor and a second differential transistor forming a differential pair;
- a first load transistor and a second load transistor respectively provided to the first differential transistor and the second differential transistor;
- a first cascode transistor connected in cascode between the first differential transistor and the first load transistor;
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- an amplitude limiting element configured to limit an amplitude of an output signal at an output node between the first load transistor and the first cascode transistor.
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