This application is a divisional of Ser. No. 16/051,469, which claims priority to U.S. provisional application Ser. No. 62/545,470 filed on Aug. 14, 2017, which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to Field Effect Transistor (FET) circuits used in providing voltage controlled amplitude circuits, waveform shaping circuits.
In one embodiment is to provide a lower distortion voltage controlled resistor via an FET, an isolation amplifier or a buffer amplifier was required. For example with a junction FET or JFET, the inclusion of a buffer amplifier did not provide as a substantial difference in lowering distortion when compared to using a MOS (Metal Oxide Silicon) FET or MOSFET. In another example, the inclusion of a buffer amplifier for a depletion mode FET did not provide as a substantial difference in lowering distortion when compared to using an enhancement mode FET. An example such as a DMOS or enhancement mode device such as a SD5000 family of FETs showed much more improvement in reducing or lowering nonlinear distortion (e.g., lowering or reducing harmonic distortion and or lowering or reducing intermodulation distortion) with an amplifier feedback circuit when compared to using feedback network without an amplifier.
One or more embodiments may include the following:
1) An improved voltage controlled resistor including an amplifier.
2) A waveshaping circuit that includes a sinewave to triangle converter circuit.
3) A multiple FET circuit including a feedback circuit to provide a substantially predetermined drain to source resistance or to provide a predetermined amount of attenuation or gain.