Abstract: In an overtone crystal oscillator comprising a crystal oscillator having a feedback loop and a resonance amplifier whose amplitude characteristic has an overshoot in the range of the resonant frequency of the resonance amplifier and which is arranged in the feedback loop of the crystal oscillator, the resonant frequency of the resonance amplifier is between the frequency of the overtone to be generated and the next lower oscillation frequency of the crystal oscillator, while signals in the frequency range of the next lower oscillation frequency(ies) in relation to signals in the frequency range of the overtone to be generated in the feedback loop, particularly in the resonance amplifier, have such a phase shift that the overtone crystal oscillator cannot oscillate at the frequencies of the next lower oscillation frequency(ies) and that it only oscillates at the frequency of the overtone to be generated.

Abstract: In integrated semiconductor circuits having multilayer wiring, in which the circuit elements formed in the semiconductor body are interconnected by connection conductors which extend at at least two levels located one above the other and are mutually separated by insulating layers, undesired couplings may occur between the circuit elements and the conductor tracks extending above them. These disturbing couplings can be avoided by having at least one connection conductor of a lower wiring level so positioned and shaped and connected to such a potential that it constitutes a screening element between at least one underlying circuit element and at least one connection conductor at an upper wiring level.

Abstract: A current-mirror arrangement comprising a first branch including two series-connected diodes and a second branch including the series-connected base-emitter paths of two transistors. The ratio between the input and output currents of the current mirror is proportional to the root of the current-gain factor of the transistors.

Abstract: In a monolithic integrated RC-oscillator comprising only one external frequency-determining network of a capacitance and a discharge circuit, a charging circuit which can be switched on and off periodically is connected to the network, which charging circuit is switched on and switched off by means of a threshold circuit with two switching thresholds when the voltage across the capacitor of the network reaches the lower and the upper switching threshold, respectively. In order to ensure that the frequency of the generated sawtooth signal is independent of a fixed discharge current, which is subject to spreading, and of the temperature coefficient of this current, the charging current of the charging circuit is controlled by the voltage across a second capacitor, which is charged or discharged with a current (I.sub.1) when the frequency-determining capacitance is discharged and which is discharged or charged with a second current when said frequency-determining capacitor is charged.

Abstract: The invention relates to an integrated voltage-current converter circuit for generating a current which produces a voltage drop across a reference resistor, which voltage drop is determined by an input voltage. In order to compensate for the spread in width of the reference resistor formed in the integrated circuit, this reference resistor is formed by two parallel-connected resistors having the same resistance per unit area, the same length and different widths, and the compensated output current is formed by the difference between the currents which flows through these resistors.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes an integrated semiconductor circuit with a plurality of connection leads in which stray capacitances with equal temperature coefficients exist between one connection lead and the two adjacent, second and third, connection leads. A voltage is present between the first and second connection leads, and produces a current through the stray capacitance between these connection leads. In order to cancel the effect of this temperature-dependent current, a compensation voltage is applied between the first and second connection leads, which compensation voltage causes a current which is equal and opposite to the current through the stray capacitance between the first and second connection leads to flow through the stray capacitance between the first and third connection leads.