APPARATUS INCLUDING A BIAS VOLTAGE GENERATOR

An apparatus comprising: a cascode arrangement comprising two or more transistors, the cascode arrangement coupled between a supply voltage terminal for receiving a supply voltage from a battery and a ground terminal, and a bias voltage generator configured to provide a bias voltage to at least one...

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Hauptverfasser: El Waffaoui, Rachid, van der Heijden, Mark Pieter, Cordier, Christophe
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Zusammenfassung:An apparatus comprising: a cascode arrangement comprising two or more transistors, the cascode arrangement coupled between a supply voltage terminal for receiving a supply voltage from a battery and a ground terminal, and a bias voltage generator configured to provide a bias voltage to at least one of the two or more transistors of the cascode arrangement to bias the cascode arrangement, the bias voltage generator further configured to increase the bias voltage with increasing supply voltage at a first rate over a first supply voltage range and increase the bias voltage with increasing supply voltage at a second rate, greater than the first rate, over a second supply voltage range, wherein the second supply voltage range comprises a range of voltages greater than the first supply voltage range.