Current stabilizer comprising enhancement field-effect transistors
AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorWouter M. Boeke
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AssigneeU.S. Philips Corporation
InventorWouter M. Boeke
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A current stabilizer equipped with field-effect transistors of the enhancement type has two parallel current paths which are coupled by means of two different current coupling circuits in order to obtain a stabilizing point. At least one of the two coupling circuits comprises two field-effect transistors which are each included in one of the two current paths. One of said field-effect transistors has a gate-source voltage which is a constant fraction of the gate-source voltage of the other transistor. This is achieved by including in series with said one transistor, a third field-effect transistor with interconnected gate and drain electrodes so that the other one of said two transistors has a gate-source voltage which is twice as high as that of the said one transistor. The other current coupling circuit is of the opposite conductivity type and may be a current mirror, but it may also comprise the complementary version of the one current coupling circuit.
A current stabilizer comprising first and second parallel current paths coupled to each other with respect to current via a first and a second current-coupling circuit which define a different relationship of the currents in the first and the second current paths, and with one common value unequal to zero at which the currents in the first and the second current path stabilize themselves, the first current coupling circuit comprising enhancement type field-effect transistors of the first channel conductivity type and the second current coupling circuit comprising a first enhancement type field-effect transistor of a second channel conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type having a channel included in the first current path and a second enhancement type field effect transistor of said second conductivity type having a channel included in the second current path, the source electrodes of the first and the second field effect transistor being coupled to a first common point, and means for defining a fixed relationship between the gate-source voltage of the first field effect transistor and the gate-source voltage of the second field effect transistor.
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