Patents Represented by Attorney Larson Newman Abel Polanky & White, LLP
  • Patent number: 7081796
    Abstract: A low noise amplifier (500) includes a first transconductance device (326) having a control electrode for receiving a first input signal, and a first current electrode; a first load device (322) having a first terminal coupled to a first power supply voltage terminal and a second terminal coupled to the first current electrode of the first transconductance device (326) and forming a first output voltage signal; a second transconductance device (336) having a control electrode for receiving a second input signal, and a second current electrode; a second load device (332) having a first terminal coupled to the first power supply voltage terminal and a second terminal coupled to the first current electrode of the second transconductance device (336) and forming a second output voltage signal; and an attenuation device (340) coupled between the first current electrodes of the first (326) and second (336) transconductance devices and having a control input terminal for receiving a control voltage thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: Silicon Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew W. Krone