ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,008, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Amplifier with source degeneration" was invented by Shang-Chi Yang (Changhua, Taiwan), Tung-Yu Li (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Jian-Syu Lin (Chiayi, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differential amplifier includes an input pair of transistors with a source-side resistor circuit, having a transistor biased in a triode region, and a current source. The resistor circuit in combination with a capacitance, causes source degeneration in the amplifier. The source side resistor circuit includes a first MOS transistor having a first channel terminal ...