Bootstrap voltage reference circuit utilizing an N-type negative resistance device

U.S. Patent Number: 5384530

Abstract: A bootstrap voltage reference circuit having an amplifier with a positive feedback network including a non-linear device which operates as a current source. The non-linear device may be an n-type negative resistance device such as a tunnel diode. The circuit is operable for generating a predetermined reference voltage as the difference between the signal applied to the positive input and a signal generated by the negative feedback network and applied to the negative input approaches zero.

Inventors: Pflueger; Randall J. (Cambridge, MA)

Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)

Application Number: 07/926,571

Issued: 1995-01-24

Expired: 2007-01-24

Classes: 323/313 ; 323/316; 330/104

Field of search: 323/312,313,314,315,316,280 330/103,104

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