Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Rail-to-rail comparator with shared active load
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Application No.: US15256571Application Date: 2016-09-04
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Publication No.: US09755619B2Publication Date: 2017-09-05
- Inventor: Hao Zhi , Jie Jin , Yang Wang , Jianzhou Wu
- Applicant: FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
- Current Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agent Charles E. Bergere
- Priority: CN201510874270 20151021
- Main IPC: H03K3/012
- IPC: H03K3/012 ; H03K5/24

Abstract:
A rail-to-rail comparator circuit includes NMOS and PMOS differential input stages with associated loads that are coupled to a shared-load stage. The shared-load stage is coupled to an output stage that includes two active devices. By sharing the load stage between the two input stages, the comparator has a relatively small circuit area, low power draw, and low propagation delay with rail-to-rail input common-mode voltage range.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170117880A1 RAIL-TO-RAIL COMPARATOR WITH SHARED ACTIVE LOAD Public/Granted day:2017-04-27
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