Amplifying circuit having bias voltage setting mechanism

• US 20070030072A1
• Filed: 06/01/2006
• Published: 02/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Masaki
• Granted Patent: US 7,394,317 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 330/285
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 1/301 in MOSFET amplifiers H03F1/303, H03F1/305, H03F1/308 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 2200/18 the bias of the gate of a FET being controlled by a control signal
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 3/195 in integrated circuits

Abstract

An amplifying circuit having a bias voltage setting mechanism includes: a first amplifying element that amplifies an input signal and outputs the amplified signal as an output signal; a bias voltage setting unit that generates a bias voltage from the output signal on the basis of a control signal, such as an AGC voltage; and a high impedance element (third resistor) by which the bias voltage is applied to an input portion of the first amplifying element and which, when a component for bias voltage setting, such as a fourth resistor, is externally provided in the bias voltage setting unit, prevents a capacitive component of the component for bias voltage setting from being equivalently connected with respect to the input portion.

Claims

1. An amplifying circuit having a bias voltage setting mechanism comprising:

an amplifying element that amplifies an input signal and outputs the amplified signal as an output signal;

a bias voltage setting unit that generates a bias voltage from the output signal on the basis of a control signal; and

a high impedance element by which the bias voltage is applied to an input portion of the amplifying element and which, when a component for bias voltage setting is externally provided in the bias voltage setting unit, prevents a capacitive component of the component for bias voltage setting from being equivalently connected with respect to the input portion.

2. The amplifying circuit having the bias voltage setting mechanism according to claim 1,

wherein the amplifying element, the bias voltage setting unit, and the high impedance element are provided within a package.

3. The amplifying circuit having the bias voltage setting mechanism according to claim 1,

wherein the amplifying element is a first FET having first and second gate terminals, and

the bias voltage setting unit includes:

a first resistor whose one end is grounded;

a second FET whose source terminal is connected to the other end of the first resistor; and

a second resistor connected between a drain terminal of the second FET and an output portion of the amplifying element.

4. The amplifying circuit having the bias voltage setting mechanism according to claim 3,

wherein the high impedance element is a third resistor that is connected between the first gate terminal of the first FET and the drain terminal of the second FET and has a high resistance.

5. The amplifying circuit having the bias voltage setting mechanism according to claim 3,

wherein at least a first external terminal connected to the first gate terminal of the first FET, a second external terminal connected to a drain terminal of the first FET, a third external terminal connected to a source terminal of the first FET and the one end of the first resistor, a fourth external terminal connected to the second gate terminal of the first FET and a gate terminal of the second FET, a fifth external terminal connected to the drain terminal of the second FET, and a sixth external terminal connected to the source terminal of the second FET are provided around a periphery of the package.