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    A Widlar current source is a modification of the basic two-transistor current mirror that incorporates an emitter degeneration resistor for only the output...
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    many of which are designed as constant current devices. Widlar current source Widlar bilateral current source Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine...
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  • 1963. Widlar invented the basic building blocks of linear ICs including the Widlar current source, the Widlar bandgap voltage reference and the Widlar output...
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  • These circuits include: the Widlar current source the Wilson current mirror used as a current source Cascoded current sources Keeping the output resistance...
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  • or less, the use of current mirrors may be abandoned entirely. Widlar current source Sedra, A.S. & Smith, K.C.: "Microelectronic Circuits, 6th Ed.",...
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  • filed a patent in 1963 and published this circuit concept in 1964. Bob Widlar, Paul Brokaw and others followed up with other commercially-successful versions...
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  • Pease, designer of the LM331 and LM337 among others Bob Widlar inventor of the Widlar current source List of LM-series integrated circuits List of semiconductor...
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  • Whitaker Founder of AMP Inc. and philanthropist Bob Widlar Linear integrated circuits, Widlar current source, and operational amplifier Niklaus Wirth Computer...
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    transistors. Widlar used this same trick in μA702 and μA709 The base drive for input transistors Q1/Q2 is the input bias current and must be sourced externally...
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  • their functioning. People who have specialized in this field include Bob Widlar, Bob Pease, Hans Camenzind, George Erdi, Jim Williams, and Barrie Gilbert...
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    Robert Widlar to design analog operational amplifiers using Fairchild's process. Since Fairchild's processes were optimized for digital circuits, Widlar collaborated...
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    This method is common in monolithic temperature sensors.[citation needed] Widlar, R.J. (January 1967). "An exact expression for the thermal variation of...
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  • company's spin-off, National Semiconductor, with Charles E. Sporck and Bob Widlar.: 259  At National Semiconductor they made the-then bold move of assembling...
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    vacuum triode, tetrode, and pentode circuits. 4000 series 7400 series Bob Widlar Common collector Differential amplifier Letter and numeral code for voltages...
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    (1966–1972), incorporated early switched-mode power supplies. c. 1967 Bob Widlar of Fairchild Semiconductor designs the μA723 IC voltage regulator. One of...
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    front end. There is no physical 2.495 V source: the actual internal reference is provided by a 1.2 V Widlar bandgap (transistors T3, T4, T5), driven...
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  • influential in the development of Fairchild's uA709 operational amplifier by Bob Widlar, which Noyce knew about as he was one of the founders of Fairchild Semiconductors...
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  • converter – Current (electricity) – Current density – Current division – Current source inverter – Current sourceCurrent transformer – Current-to-voltage...
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  • Invention of the integrated circuit (category CS1 Russian-language sources (ru))
    transistor-transistor logic (TTL) ICs, which became a commercial success. Bob Widlar from Fairchild made a similar breakthrough in 1964–1965 in analog ICs (operational...
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