IP Library Granted Patent US 8,138,464
Granted Patent B2
US 8,138,464 · App. 12/410,721 · Granted Mar 20, 2012

Optical receiving circuit

Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
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Patent No.
US 8,138,464
App. No.
12/410,721
Granted
Mar 20, 2012
Kind
B2
Abstract

An optical-receiving circuit includes a first photodiode converting an optical signal into a current signal, a first trans-impedance amplifier to which a first power supply voltage of V reg is supplied and which has a negative feedback resistor and to which the current signal is input and which outputs a voltage signal, and an output circuit to which the voltage signal output from the first trans-impedance amplifier is input and which outputs a voltage signal to the outside. A temperature coefficient of a voltage of (V reg −MV be ) is positive, in which V be is a base-emitter voltage of a transistor contained in the first trans-impedance amplifier and M is a coefficient that does not depend on the temperature.

Claims (15)

1. An optical-receiving circuit comprising:

a first photodiode converting an optical signal into a current signal;

a first trans-impedance amplifier to which a first power supply voltage of V reg is supplied and which has a negative feedback resistor and to which the current signal is input and which outputs a voltage signal; and

an output circuit to which the voltage signal output from the first trans-impedance amplifier is input and which outputs a voltage signal to the outside, the output circuit having an output transistor,

a temperature coefficient of a voltage of (V reg −MV be ) being positive, in which V be is a base-emitter voltage of a transistor contained in the first trans-impedance amplifier and M is a coefficient that does not depend on the temperature,

a second power supply voltage being supplied to a collector of the output transistor through N (where, N≧1) diodes that are serially connected, and

a temperature coefficient of the second power supply voltage being about N times of a temperature coefficient of the diodes.

2. The optical-receiving circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the coefficient M is about 2.

3. The optical-receiving circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the negative feedback resistor is composed of polysilicon.

4. The optical-receiving circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the output transistor is an open collector type.

5. The optical-receiving circuit according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a second photodiode converting an optical signal into a current signal and having an optical-shielding part;

a second trans-impedance amplifier to which the first power supply voltage is supplied and which has a negative feedback resistor and to which the current signal input from the second photodiode and which outputs a voltage signal;

an offset generation circuit to which the voltage signal output from the first trans-impedance amplifier and the voltage signal output from the second trans-impedance amplifier are input and which applies an offset voltage to any one of the voltage signals and thereby outputting a first comparison voltage signal and which does not apply the offset voltage to the other voltage signal and thereby outputting a second comparison voltage signal; and

a comparator to which the first comparison voltage signal and the second comparison voltage signal are input and which outputs, to the output circuit, a signal including information for magnitude relation of the comparison voltage signals.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 5, 2009
From: UO, TOYOAKI
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
Reel/Frame 022639/0994 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2008-191257 · Jul 24, 2008 · national
Continuity (1)
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