FET switch circuit having small insertion loss and exhibiting stable operation

• US 4,810,911 A
• Filed: 11/16/1987
• Issued: 03/07/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/1986
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NEC Electronics Corporation (Renesas Electronics Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Noguchi, Tsutomu
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller, Stanley D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): PHAN, TRONG Q
• Application Number:
  US07/120,604
• Time in Patent Office: 477 Days
• Field of Search: 307/511, 307/573, 307/574, 307/575, 307/577, 307/583, 307/584, 307/241, 307/242, 307/362, 307/364, 307/355
• US Class Current: 327/431
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/063 in field-effect transistor switches
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/693 Switching arrangements with several input- or output-terminals, e.g. multiplexers, distributors logic circuits H03K19/00; code converters H03M5/00, H03M7/00

Abstract

Disclosed is a switch circuit comprising one common input/output terminal, two switching input/output terminals, series field effect transistors respectively inserted between the common input/output terminal and the two switching input/output terminals, shunt field effect transistors respectively inserted between the two switching input/output terminals and the ground, and resistors respectively inserted between the ground and the common input/output terminal and between the ground and the two switching input/output terminals, the resistors having the resistance values smaller than that of the shunt field effect transistors at OFF state.

Claims

1. A switch circuit comprising:

a first input/output terminal;

a second input/output terminal;

a third input/output terminal;

a fixed potential terminal;

a first field effect transistor inserted in series between said first input/output terminal and said second input/output terminal;

a second field effect transistor inserted in series between said first input/output terminal and said third input/output terminal;

a third field effect transistor connected between said second input/output terminal and said fixed potential terminal;

a fourth field effect transistor connected between said third input/output terminal and said fixed potential terminal;

a first resistor connected between said fixed potential terminal and said first input/output terminal;

a second resistor connected between said fixed potential terminal and said second input/output terminal; and

a third resistor connected between said fixed potential terminal and said third input/output terminal, wherein said first, second and third resistors have resistance values smaller than the resistance values of said third and fourth field effect transistors at OFF state.

2. The switch circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first to fourth field effect transistors are metal semiconductor field effect transistors using compound semiconductor.

3. The switch circuit as claimed in claim 2, wherein said first to fourth field effect transistors are GaAs metal semiconductor field effect transistors.

4. The switch circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first to third resistors have impedance values larger than that of loads to be connected to said second input/output terminal and said third input/output terminal.

5. The switch circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first to third resistors have a resistance value of 1 to 10 kiloohms.

6. A transistor switch comprising:

a first input/output terminal;

a second input/output terminal;

a reference terminal held at a fixed potential;

a first field effect transistor inserted in series between said first input/output terminal and said second input/output terminal;

a second field effect transistor inserted between said second input/output terminal and said reference terminal; and

first and second resistors respectively connected between said reference terminal and said first input/output terminal and between said reference terminal and said second input/output terminal and having resistance values smaller than that of said second field effect transistor at OFF state.

7. The transistor switch as claimed in claim 6, wherein said first and second field effect transistors are metal semiconductor field effect transistors using compound semiconductor.

8. The transistor switch as claimed in claim 7, wherein said first and second field effect transistors are GaAs metal semiconductor field effect transistors.

9. The transistor switch as claimed in claim 6, wherein said first and second resistors have an impedance greater than that of a load to be connected to said second input/output terminal.

10. The transistor switch as claimed in claim 6, wherein said first and second resistors have a resistance of 1 to 10 kiloohms.