Patents Examined by Peauy Jean Pierre
  • Patent number: 6052074
    Abstract: A multi-channel D/A converter is formed with a plurality of converter units, each having one single input transistor and a plurality of output transistors which together form current mirrors. Mutually corresponding ones of these output transistors of different ones of the converter units, which are switched on and off together, are disposed adjacently and connected together to a trunk power supply line such that the parasitic resistances through the conductive lines connected to the output transistors are alike and the conversion characteristics of the individual converter units also become alike. One common input transistor may be shared by all of the converter units for further improving the conversion characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Iida