Integrated circuit arrangement with a cascoded current source and an adjusting circuit for adjusting the operating point of the cascoded current source
First Claim
1. An integrated circuit arrangement, including a cascaded current source (10) for providing an output current (Iout), which is formed by a series circuit of a first current source FET (Q1), connected on the source side to a supply voltage (GND) and a second current source FET (Q2), situated as a cascade, which are operated in saturation, and an adjusting circuit (20) for adjusting the operating point (Vg1, Vg2, Vx) of the cascoded current source (10) by providing a first gate potential (Vg1) and a second gate potential (Vg2) for the first current source FET (Q1) and/or the second current source FET (Q2), wherein the adjusting circuit has:
- a reference stage, which is formed by a pair of a first reference FET (M2) and a second reference FET (M1), which are operated in saturation and connected on the source side to the supply voltage (GND) and which are supplied with a first reference current (Iref1) and a second reference current (Iref2), respectively, the reference FETs (M2, M1) being dimensioned in such a way and the reference currents (Iref1, Iref2) being selected in such a way that the current density in the second reference FET (M1) differs by a predetermined factor (N2) from the current density in the first reference FET (M2), for providing a first reference gate potential (Vgs1) and a second reference gate potential (Vgs2) at the gate of the first reference FET (M2) and/or at the gate of the second reference FET (M1), a processing stage, into which the first reference gate potential (Vgs1) and the second reference gate potential (Vgs2) are input, for providing an adjustment potential (Vgt1+V1) on the basis of the predetermined factor (N2), which is equal to the effective control voltage (Vgt1) of the first reference FET (M2) plus a predetermined additional voltage (V1), and an output FET (M9), operated in saturation, which is connected on the source side to the adjustment potential (Vgt1+V1) and is dimensioned in such a way that the current density in the output FET (M9) is at least approximately equal to the current density in the second current source FET (Q2), the potential at the gate of the output FET (M9) being provided as the second gate potential (Vg2).
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Abstract
An integrated circuit arrangement is provided according to the present invention, including a cascoded current source (10) and an adjusting circuit (20) for adjusting the operating point (Vg1, Vg2, Vx) of the cascoded current source (10) by providing gate potentials (Vg1, Vg2) for current source FETs (Q1, Q2), the adjusting circuit having: a reference stage, formed by a pair of reference FETs (M2, M1), which are supplied with reference currents (Iref1, Iref2) in such a way that the current densities in the reference FETs (M2, M1) differ by a predetermined factor (N2), for providing reference gate potentials (Vgs1, Vgs2) at the gates of the reference FETs (M2, M1); a processing stage, for providing an adjustment potential (Vgt1+V1) on the basis of the predetermined factor (N2), which is equal to the effective control voltage (Vgt1) of the first reference FET (M2) plus a predetermined additional voltage (V1), and an output FET (M9), which is connected on the source side to the adjustment potential (Vgt1+V1). Therefore, the present invention provides a circuit for operating point adjustment of a cascoded FET current source, independent of process and temperature variations, which may be used in many highly integrated analog circuits and maximizes the dynamic range.
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1. An integrated circuit arrangement, including
a cascaded current source (10) for providing an output current (Iout), which is formed by a series circuit of a first current source FET (Q1), connected on the source side to a supply voltage (GND) and a second current source FET (Q2), situated as a cascade, which are operated in saturation, and an adjusting circuit (20) for adjusting the operating point (Vg1, Vg2, Vx) of the cascoded current source (10) by providing a first gate potential (Vg1) and a second gate potential (Vg2) for the first current source FET (Q1) and/or the second current source FET (Q2), wherein the adjusting circuit has: -
a reference stage, which is formed by a pair of a first reference FET (M2) and a second reference FET (M1), which are operated in saturation and connected on the source side to the supply voltage (GND) and which are supplied with a first reference current (Iref1) and a second reference current (Iref2), respectively, the reference FETs (M2, M1) being dimensioned in such a way and the reference currents (Iref1, Iref2) being selected in such a way that the current density in the second reference FET (M1) differs by a predetermined factor (N2) from the current density in the first reference FET (M2), for providing a first reference gate potential (Vgs1) and a second reference gate potential (Vgs2) at the gate of the first reference FET (M2) and/or at the gate of the second reference FET (M1), a processing stage, into which the first reference gate potential (Vgs1) and the second reference gate potential (Vgs2) are input, for providing an adjustment potential (Vgt1+V1) on the basis of the predetermined factor (N2), which is equal to the effective control voltage (Vgt1) of the first reference FET (M2) plus a predetermined additional voltage (V1), and an output FET (M9), operated in saturation, which is connected on the source side to the adjustment potential (Vgt1+V1) and is dimensioned in such a way that the current density in the output FET (M9) is at least approximately equal to the current density in the second current source FET (Q2), the potential at the gate of the output FET (M9) being provided as the second gate potential (Vg2). - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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