Fast current feedback amplifiers and current-to-voltage converters and methods maintaining high DC accuracy over temperature

摘要

Current feedback amplifier circuits, and current-to-voltage converter circuits, employing operational amplifier current mirror circuits are provided. Also provided is an output compensation circuit that, in a current feedback amplifier circuit employing the output compensation circuit together with the operational amplifier current mirrors, reduces the input bias current to be comparable to the input bias current of a voltage feedback amplifier. Additionally, a circuit and method of providing a current source that is proportional to absolute temperature is provided. A current feedback amplifier circuit employing the output compensation circuit and the operational amplifier current mirrors, and having input transistors biased by the proportional to absolute temperature current source is also provided. The drift of the input bias current over temperature are thereby made predictable and, with trimming, substantially reduced. The current feedback amplifier circuit and current- to-voltage converter circuit are thus both fast and highly accurate, including over temperature. Additionally, an optical storage accessing circuit which employs the current feedback amplifier circuit of the present invention.