Trimmer device and related trimming method
AssigneeRealtek Semiconductor Corp.
InventorChieh-Min Feng
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Abstract
A trimmer device for adjusting a reference signal of a target circuit is disclosed. The trimmer device includes: a switch controlling module and an impedance adjustment circuit. The switch controlling module includes: a fuse, selectively being melted according to the reference signal; and a control signal generating circuit, for generating a control signal according to the melting condition of the fuse. The impedance adjustment circuit includes: a switch module, being selectively conductive according to the control signal; and an impedance network, for determining an equivalent impedance of the impedance network according to the conducting condition of the switch module to further adjust the reference signal.
Claims9
A trimmer device for adjusting a reference signal of a target circuit, the trimmer device comprising:
- a switch controlling module comprising:
- a fuse, selectively melted according to an ideal value of the reference signal;
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- a control signal generating circuit, coupled to the fuse, for generating a control signal according to a conducting condition of the fuse;
- and
- an impedance adjusting circuit, coupled to the target circuit and the switch controlling module, the impedance adjusting circuit comprising:
- a switch module, selectively conductive according to the control signal;
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- an impedance network, coupled to the switch module, for determining an equivalent impedance of the impedance network according to a conducting condition of the switch module such that the reference signal is adjusted;
- wherein the switch module comprises N switch devices, the impedance network comprises N impedance devices, a first impedance device and at least an Nth impedance device of the N impedance devices are connected in series, a first switch device of the N switch devices is connected in parallel with the first impedance device, an Nth switch device of the N switch devices is connected in parallel with the serially connected first impedance device and at least the Nth impedance device, wherein N is an integer greater than 1.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.