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Maybe someone will finally get the rights to the manga now? I mean I've been wanting to read it since I first saw the anime.
Maybe Shaft can make a season 3 now? I mean I enjoyed the first two seasons a lot.
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I'm hoping for a third season as well. I enjoyed the first season a lot, but the second season episodes had a lot more misses than hits, focusing more on one-shot gag episodes than the actual story. Need a third season to make up for that.
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|well, Shaft didn't really followed the manga anyway.
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|I'd also like more of this to be animated. I thought the show was pretty funny. Here's hoping.
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What do you mean "Shaft did not follow the manga"?
The first season is almost one hundred percent accurate adaptation of the first three volumes, plus two anime-original episodes. The second season, well, adapts certain chapters from volumes 4 and 5 (episodes 1~3 plus 9~10) and the rest is filler for one simple reason - when S2 was planned, volume 6 of the manga was only coming out.
I, too, would absolutely love the third season, but expecting it is completely unreasonable. It's the single worst selling Shaft show ever, so unless Square Enix or King Records still managed to somehow profit on this even though DVD sales are horribly low, I can't see that happening. Well, if it won't be announced with tankobon #8 (will probably come out in November), then I'm afraid it won't be announced at all.
Next, the last three volumes of manga are a lot more dramatic and plot-driven than anything in season 2. It's a completely different feeling. And then again, if they would adapt it all, it would pretty much render then manga obsolete, since anime elaborates a little more on certain characters' development already - and rightfully so, since Kobayashi Jin himself was involved in the production.
All that said, I do wish for a closure for the animated version. But chances of it happening are slim. A shame, too. It's not like with other Shaft adaptations which end in the middle of nowhere - there's only 3 volumes left! One more season would be enough! And unlike Zetsubou Sensei or Hidamari Sketch, it's plot heavy. Some things just are not meant to be done right, I guess.
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I hope Del Rey or some publisher picks up the manga here...but if School Rumble did bad enough for Del Rey that they had to release it in an omnibus then I doubt they'll get Natsu no Arashi.
It would also be nice if Funimation got the anime since they released School Rumble, but if it was on Crunchyroll they probably passed...
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Sales numbers please.
Because as far as I know the worst selling show they made was Maria Holic.
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That hurts my soul.
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Obviously I don't have any solid sources in my possession (and I am not entirely sure how far japanese forums from which that information comes count as solid anyway), but to my knowledge, it's something slightly under 1000 units per volume.
They also did not release the background music album for the second series separately, included it with S2 DVD 1 instead, probably in belief that it would not sell well on its own.
According to same very sources, Maria+Holic sold around 4500 units per volume, much better than Arashi and (ugh) Vampire Bund.
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As far as I know all sales numbers online for Japanese release are based on Oricon numbers, which lists the top 100 for DVD weekly for their subscribers. But there can be discrepancies when a title doen't make the chart for a week. Oricon still keep track of the top 300 even if they don't release the sales numbers for 101-300. Those numbers are added to sales totals when they release year end best seller lists, assuming any title like that made it to those lists. I think there might be a corporate Oricon account level which actually has the sales number for 101-300, but if so, it's probably not leaked like the regular numbers are.
Natsu no Arashi!
2009/06/24 **,*** Vol. 1 Limited Edition
2009/07/23 **,*** Vol. 2 Limited Edition
2009/08/26 **,*** Vol. 3 Limited Edition
2009/09/30 ***984 Vol. 4 Limited Edition
Natsu no Arashi! ~Akinaichuu~
2010/01/13 **,*** Vol. 1 Limited Edition
2010/02/10 **,*** Vol. 2 Limited Edition
2010/03/10 ***772 Vol. 3 Limited Edition
2010/04/21 **,*** Vol. 4 Limited Edition
2009/03/25 *4,548 Vol. 1
2009/04/24 *3,289 Vol. 2
2009/05/22 *3,689 Vol. 3
2009/06/25 *2,995 Vol. 4
2009/07/24 *2,740 Vol. 5
2009/08/25 *3,078 Vol. 6
Dance in the Vampire Bund
2010/03/25 *1,328 Vol. 1
2010/05/25 *1,313 Vol. 2
2010/06/25 *1,180 Vol. 3
2010/07/23 *1,132 Vol. 4
Numbers for Vampire Bund are blu-ray only, none of the DVDs managed to make the top 100. (Asterisks only for Arashi are volumes that didn't make that charts at all as well) But yes, Natsu no Arashi (both seasons) is the lowest selling SHAFT title I know of. It's pretty safe to assume all the volumes sold around 1000 or less. I doubt we'll be seeing any more unless someone has money to burn.
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Maybe this will help?
Joking aside, I am sure the OEL manga that Del Ray has licensed probably have done worse than that series. But maybe not, I sure don't know.
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May I make a suggestion to Kobayashi what his next manga should be?
School Rumble 2 / School Rumble Z2 / School Rumble ZZ, etc.
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Japan has no taste.
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I actually wish he'd go back and wrap up School Rumble properly. The end itself was fine (spoiler[but geez, poor Yakumo]), but it had zero build-up to it, just a lame time-skip and suddenly all couples have been decided without any explanation as to why. WTH?
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To celebrate the races, we will be tapping some fun kegs! Lagunitas Pils, Waldo's Special, and Aunt Sally will all be on tap for the festivities!
You can stop by either Saraveza or NWIPA to pick-up a pinewood derby car kit! The kit includes a sleek and smooth block of pine, 4 axles and 4 wheels! From there, creativity is all yours! The ONLY restriction we put on your car is that it can't weigh more than 5 ounces!
Kits are only $10 and all proceeds from the kit sales will go to the American Cancer Society!
So sharpen up your whittlin' knife and come get a kit so you can participate in the race!
Thursday April 7th, 6-9pm!
Come join the Dam Flat Tail crew as we celebrate another Dam Wild release! We'll have three varients of their seasonal Dam Wild series on side-by-side-by-side for you to try, and Dam Dave will be Dam here! Plus we'll be debuting the new one, the Dam Wild Pink Lemonade, made with Oregon raspberries and lemons! It will be a Dam good time, for certain! We will also be talking about what Dam is your favorite Dam! The Hoover Dam, Contra Dam, Gordon Dam? Which is your favorite? The Dam with the most votes will win a Dam prize from our Dam gift shop!
On Dam draft for the night:
Dam Wild Marion Berries and Pink Peppercorns
Dam Wild Peaches and Cream
Dam Wild Dry Hopped Lemon Verbena
About the Dam Wild series:
"Our DAM Wild series utilizes a base sour blonde, fermented with only our proprietary strain of Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus Buchneri. We infuse this sour blonde with a number of different ingredients sourced both locally and from around the world. Look for four bottled versions available seasonally, along with special releases and one offs on draft only throughout the year."
Wesdnesday April 13th, 6-9pm
Our 4th annual Farmhouse and Wild Ale fest was a huge hit! Though with any beer fest, there are usually some leftovers. We'll be rotating through several over the next few weeks. But, then there's the bottles! We got some special treats from Apothecary, Jester King, Breakside, Propolis, and Blackberry Farms to name a few! We will be putting them out for sale on this day and will have them until they are gone! We'll even be pulling a few special things from our cellar to sell along with them, because, why not!?
This will also be your last chance to snag any bottles of "The Croze" from the Commons! Any leftover bottles will be stashed downstairs to be saved for future festivals and cellar sales! So if you want to get a bottle for $10 and avoid having to pay us to store it for you, Wednesday the 13th is your chance!
So come out Wednesday evening and snag yourself some bottles that aren't normally available around these parts!
March 26th and 27th
As spring blossoms and the weather milds the Portland Farmhouse and Wild Ale Festival falls back to Saraveza, Bad Habit Room and side street of N. Michigan for it's 4th year. Oregon's largest and perhaps the Pacific Northwest's largest Farmhouse dedicated beer festival continues to highlight American made wild and rustic ales that take their inspiration from the beers of France and Belgium. This year the Portland Farmhouse and Wild Ale Festival introduces a new VIP early entrance and an exclusive bottle and draft release called 'The Croze' from The Commons Brewery.
This years festival will have the largest selection yet of over 60 different beers from more than 25 breweries with outdoor booths featuring Ale Apothecary, Perennial Artisan Ales, The Commons, pFriem Family Brewers and Agrarian Ales.
Participating Breweries: De Garde, Jester King, Block 15 Brewing, Sante Adairius, The Ale Apothecary, Perennial Artisan Ales, Crooked Stave, The Commons, Upright Brewing, pFriem Family Brewers, The Bruery, Solera Brewery, Logsdon Farmhouse Ales, Great Notion Brewing, Propolis, Agrarian Ales, Three Magnets Brewing, Stillwater Artisan Ales, Hair of the Dog, Almanac, Breakside, Culmination, Russian River, Blackberry Farms, Urban Family Brewing and Golden Valley.
The Portland Farmhouse and Wild Ale Festival will be the only place to get 'The Croze', a primarily bottled wild saison brewed exclusively for the festival. One keg of The Croze will be pouring at the fest for attendees to sample before purchasing bottles.The Croze is an open oak fermented saison brewed with pilsner malt, malted wheat and german hops, bottled and keg conditioned. The Croze was made using a unique technique of fermenting in open top oak barrels. 5.3% Abv and very limited. Bottles of The Croze will be on sale during the Sunday VIP session, and any remaining bottles will be available for purchase during the fest on Sunday.
Sat. & Sun. Timing:
VIP Session: starts at noon
General Admission: doors at 3pm
Tickets are on Sale Now and remain an affordable $25 which includes a collectible Glass and 10 drink tickets. Additional tickets are $1 and beers range from 1-4 tickets for a 4oz pour.
SOLD OUT: New in 2016 is a special VIP session for $35 that allows ticket holders a 3 hour early entry at Noon before regular admission at 3pm. The VIP entry will be good for BOTH Saturday and Sunday, but you will need to be wearing your wristband and keep your glass for re-entry!
Advance tickets available here or $25 CASH ONLY at the door for the general admission session.
Advance ticket sales end at 5:00PM on Friday, March the 25th!
This year we are partnering with Habitat for Humanity, Portland. $1 from every entry will be going to help support all of the great work they do in our community to give people the opportunity to have a home.]]>


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Her undergarments are bejewelled, her routines are cheeky, but it is what Jepha Krieg does with her hands that sets her aside from other burlesque dancers.
Sign language is a pivotal communication tool for the hearing-impaired and for the 22-year-old Wellingtonian who incorporates it into burlesque, the language is another way to express her creativity.
By taking sign language a step further, she is not only making her mark in the Wellington burlesque community, but she also believes she is the country's first signing burlesque artist.
"Sign language is so expressive and is perfect for performance," says Krieg, whose first show involved signing to Katy Perry's song Peacock, and Born to Handjive by Johnny Otis.
"That was perfect, as deaf people are born to handjive," she says.
Signing is an official New Zealand language and, for Krieg, it is more than just a communication tool.
"My performances open up a new avenue to show the creative side of sign language. It's not just a novelty, or a way for handicapped people to talk."
Through her performances, Krieg hopes to make both the comedy of burlesque and the songs she uses more accessible to the deaf, and to expose sign language to people who would not otherwise experience it.
As well as her live performances, Krieg - who first learned signing after meeting deaf people at a cinema she worked at - is also raising money to buy a camera to record her performances and weekly song interpretation videos to upload on YouTube.
"A performance presented to you in a language you understand makes it that much more enjoyable," she says.
She was introduced to burlesque after interviewing burlesque performers on an Access Radio show, and has been immersed in the Wellington burlesque community for almost a year, appearing under stage name The Purple Rose. She has performed in several central city locations, and had her first paid gig recently at a Queen-themed burlesque show at Fringe Bar, where she did a signing performance of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Her burlesque career has also taken her around the country, helping backstage for visiting UK burlesque performers in Auckland, performing in the Fringe Festival show "Zomburlesque" in Dunedin, and she will be performing in Christchurch in October.
Krieg, who studies sign language at Victoria University and hopes to study interpreting in Auckland next year, praises the burlesque community for its "all-inclusive" nature.
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I'm unveiling my next block in my new quilt project using Pam's fabric. The quilt will have basic quilt blocks along with a little applique. I like to do both in projects.
I love little dresses. So I brought them into this quilt by slightly changing a past project.
Pam's fabric is sew beautiful and versatile. I love using it in my blocks. I'm using faux buttons I found here. There are lots of sellers for the little button appliques if you look in etsy.com. I've used real buttons in quilts in the past and of course they could be used in this quilt, too. But I like the soft button "look" I'm using this time.
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Before Saint Augustine was a saint...well, he was something else, but his mother never gave up on him. Little Aurelius Augustinus was quite the lad. Born in 354 A.D. to privilege and education, he excelled in his studies and a lot of other things he could get his hands on.
He treated his mother badly then. When Augustine went to study in Rome, he tricked his mother and he escaped with his mistress. My, was he surprised when his mom turned up in Milan waiting for him!
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It is with a bitter taste and a saddened heart that I know quite vividly members of the NAACP and the KKK have met before. That is why it is important for us to know that last Saturday night, in a Wyoming hotel room, the head of the Casper branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People met with an organizer/recruiter of the United Klans of America … just to talk. It just may be the very civil meeting between the two was the first in history.
Jimmy Simmons, the NAACP leader, is very concerned that black men in his Wyoming town are being attacked when they are seen accompanied by white women. Not long after several of these blatant hate-crimes occurred, KKK flyers and materials, stuffed in plastic baggies weighted with a rock inside so the missive can be easily thrown from a car and land in a driveway, started showing up in the state's second-largest city.
At first Jimmy thought to stage a NAACP rally but then he came up with a far-better idea. "If you want to talk about hate, get a hater," he told the Star-Tribune. "Let him tell you something about hate."
Simmons had to work hard to get permission from NAACP headquarters – they were none too thrilled over the idea – and then he contacted the Klu Klux Klan and began weeks of careful negotiations over boundaries of what would be discussed, promising that heavy security would be present, and assurances that, well … everybody already agreed on one thing – everybody would behave.
The Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America – Bradley Jenkins -- had to overrule the Imperial Council for the meeting to take place and – get this – Jenkins went as far as to say he'd love to meet with NAACP leaders in his state, which just so happens to be Alabama. It's a fabulous idea, long overdue in a nation where – in the year 2013 -- we still need healing.
Last Saturday afternoon the four NAACP members who arrived first didn't think anybody from the KKK would show up. Suddenly a security officer said, "Showtime!" and John Abarr, dressed in a dark suit instead of white robes and his hood, walked through a metal detector, was whisked with a hand wand, and stuck out his hand, "Hello, Jimmy."
The NAACP delegation was equally cordial, Keisha Simmons smiling as she poured John a cup of water. Then the Klansman leaned forward in his chair. Abarr said the Klan had nothing to do with the attacks, admitting the possibility that some members could still act on their own. He called the attacks "hate crimes" and urged police action and prosecution.
Abarr told the group he is a member of several anti-racism groups, such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center. He said there is no evidence the modern-day Klan is violent at all, although everybody in the room knows there is a picture of a gun target on the website that has an Obama campaign sign as its bullseye.
He said he liked being a member "because you wear robes, and get out and light crosses, and have secret handshakes. I like being in the Klan – I sort of like it that people think I'm some sort of outlaw," Abarr explained to his rapt listeners.
He told the group that there is a desire (by some in the Klan) to take states in the Northwest (like Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Oregon) and, as a white territory, secede from the United States. Blacks could stay there but no more would be allowed in. Then states like Georgia, which is primarily black, and other Southern states could become a black territory of sorts.
Asked how that would happen, Abarr answered, "Legally, hopefully."
Abarr tried hard to sell segregation, saying white people should have white police and black neighborhoods should have black police. He said there shouldn't be interracial marriages "because we want white babies."
About then Mel Hamilton, a NAACP representative, asked Abarr, "Tell us what you want, and you maintain the secrecy and injustice. But you are here, we're trying to do something good, and you are half-stepping on us. You are not serious about this, I don't think," the Star-Tribune reported.
Abarr responded by saying he holds the rank of Kleagle and organizes young men in Great Falls, Montana. He's seen a rush of recruits since Obama got elected but said he calms radicals down after they join. He also said – among other things – that homosexuality is largely genetic but still a sin, that gay marriage and polygamy are OK because "marriage isn't the government's business" and that the KKK tries to recruit police with little success.
One other thing John Abarr told the NAACP: "People (in the Klan) are going to call me names for coming down here. You know, I (may get excommunicated by the Klan and) not even have a group when I get back."
At the end of the meeting Hamilton wouldn't shake Abarr's hand. "I'd love to shake your hand tonight and truly believe that you have good will towards all people," he told Abarr, "and I can't seem to come to that point."
Simmons, on the other hand, politely asked Abarr if he would like to join the NAACP. "I wouldn't have a problem with that," the Klansman countered, filling out an application and paying the $30 fee with a $50 bill, donating the rest to the Casper branch. Simmons accepted Abarr's application.
"We'll have to do this again," Abarr said as he stood and then paused, " … or maybe not. I don't know. We'll have to keep in contact for sure, though."
The huge thing – obviously -- is that they sat at the same table and talked. Like Abarr told the group, "It is obvious we don't agree on everything," but at least both sides talked. And everybody listened -- very intently.
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|Application number
|Publication date
|Dec 18, 1984
|Filing date
|Mar 4, 1983
|Priority date
|Mar 4, 1983
|Fee status
|Publication number
|William B. Jett, Jr.
|Original Assignee
|National Semiconductor Corporation
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (7), Classifications (6), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
The invention relates to complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) structures as they exist in monolithic integrated circuit (IC) device. It would be useful to be able to program the gain, or transconductance, of operational amplifiers (op amps) by means of a resistor that is external to the IC chip and not subject to the variations in supply voltage or variations in device parameters that commonly accompany the fabrication process. Such an op amp could be referred to as a transconductance amplifier or Gm amp.
In my copending application Ser. No. 460,325 filed Jan. 24, 1983, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,459,555 and titled MOS Differential Amplifier Gain Control Circuit, a circuit is disclosed for varying the gain of an op amp in response to a control voltage. The teaching in that application is incorporated herein by reference.
It is an object of the invention to program the transconductance of an op amp on a CMOS IC chip and to slave other op amps on the chip to the programmed one so that they all have similar transconductances.
It is a further object of the invention to apply a reference current and an offset voltage to an op amp which has a feedback loop that adjusts its output current to match the reference for a programmed transconductance so that other similar op amps can be slaved to the same value.
It is a still further object of the invention to develop an off chip current in an external resistor that can be used to program an op amp for a particular op amp transconductance in such a way that other op amps on the chip can be slaved to a similar transconductance value.
These and other objects are achieved as follows. A CMOS differential op amp is provided with an input offset voltage. The transconductance of the op amp is controlled by means of its tail current which in turn is obtained from a first current mirror having an input coupled to the op amp output. A controlled reference current is developed as a function of a resistor that is external to the chip and applied, via a second current mirror, to the op amp output. The resultant circuit will operate to cause the op amp tail current to adjust to that value which will occur for the offset voltage involved to produce the reference current output. The op amp transconductance will then be equal to the reference current divided by the offset voltage. Other similar op amps on the IC chip can be slaved to the controlled device by obtaining their tail currents from similar current mirrors connected to the controlled one. Thus the external resistor can be used to program the transconductances of a plurality of op amps.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a programmed op amp and slaved op amps coupled thereto.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a programmed op amp.
With reference to FIG. 1 op amp 10 represents a programmed amplifier. An input offset voltage source 11 is coupled as shown between the inverting and non-inverting inputs so the op amp will sink on output current shown as IOUT. A current source 12 is coupled to supply IREF to the output terminal. The transconductance of the op amp is controlled by line 13 which is connected to the output terminal to create a feedback loop. This will result in making IREF =IOUT. For this condition Gm =IREF /VREF. Control line 13 can be coupled directly to op amps 14 and 15, along with any others (not shown) so that programmed op amp 10 can be used to slave the transconductances of a plurality of other op amps. Such an arrangement is particularly useful in CMOS devices where substantial parameter variations are encountered in a production process.
The schematic diagram of FIG. 2 shows a circuit that includes a programmed op amp 10. A VCC power supply is coupled +to terminal 17 and -to ground terminal 18. Device 19, which is conventional, provides a source of VCC /2 voltage for setting the circuit operating point as a function of the supply voltage. Transistors 20 and 21 are connected as a differential pair with transistors 23 and 24 providing a current mirror output load. Node 25 constitutes the op amp output, the gate of transistor 21 the noninverting input, and the gate of transistor 20 the inverting input.
The tail current, I1 is supplied to the sources of differential transistors 20 and 21 by transistor 26 which is cascoded with transistor 27. The potential at the gate of transistor 26 is determined by control line 13 and will act to establish the op amp transconductance as follows.
A VREF potential is developed between the gates of transistors 20 and 21 as will be described hereinafter. This potential will offset op amp 10 so that I3 exceeds I2.
Node 25 is fed back to control line 13 by way of a current mirror that includes transistors 28-30. The gate of transistor 28 is coupled to node 25 so that it conducts I5. Since transistor 29 has its drain returned to its gate and is cascoded with transistor 20, which is biased on by way of its VCC /2 gate voltage, I5 also flows in transistors 29 and 30. Thus, I1 is a mirrored value related to I5.
Transistors 23 and 24 are connected as a current mirror to serve as a differential to single ended output load for op amp 10. If these transistors are matched, the potential at node 25 will equal the potential at the drain of transistor 24 when I4 =I3. Since VREF acts to unbalance op amp 10 so that I3 exceeds I2, the amplifier will have a balanced output when I2 +IREF =I3. This condition indicates that op amp 10 will sink IREF for the balanced condition. If I4 is less than I3 conduction in transistor 23 will pull node 25 down and if I4 exceeds I3 the VREF source will pull node 25 up. Thus, the load transistors 23 and 24 form a comparator that has an output voltage that is a function of their current relationships. This voltage in turn determines the current I5 flowing in transistor 28.
Normally transistor 28 is made to have a conduction that is equal to the combined conduction in transistors 23 and 24. Thus, when node 25 is at the same potential as the drain of transistor 24, I5 =I4 +I3. This current is reflected via transistors 26 and 29 (which are matched) as I1 which is spilt into I2 and I3 by transistors 20 and 21. This means that a stable condition is met where I2 +IREF =I3 =I4. This means that the output current sinking of op amp 10 is equal to IREF. In the event that I2 +IREF is less than I3 the potential at node 25 will fall thereby reducing conduction in transistor 28 and transistor 26. This will reduce I3 until a balance is achieved. If I2 +IREF exceeds I3 the potential at node 25 will rise thereby increasing conduction is transistor 28 and I1. This will increase I3 until a match is achieved.
From the above it can be seen that the circuit acts to sink IREF as a function of VREF thus programming a controlled value of transconductance for op amp 10.
Circuit node 32 is clamped at a potential slightly below VCC /2 to place op amp 10 well within its common mode range. Transistors 33 and 34 form a voltage divider across the VCC line to ground. Since the gate of transistor 33 is at VCC /2 its source will be close to one N channel transistor threshold below VCC /2. Thus, the base of transistor 35, which is a well-known parasitic NPN transistor in common use in CMOS structures, will be clamped. Its emitter will be about one VBE below its base. This places node 32 at VCC /2-VTN -VBE. Looking into the emitter of transistor 35 node 32 will see a relatively low impedance clamped potential. Resistor 36 returns node 32 to ground and determines the conduction in transistor 35.
Resistor 37 couples node 32, which represents the clamped noninverting op amp input, to the inverting input at the gate of transistor 20. The voltage drop across resistor 37 is the op amp offset or VREF and is created using I6 as follows.
I6, which flows in resistor 37, is the mirror of I7 which is caused to flow in resistor 38. Since the gate of transistor 39 is returned to its drain, I7 =(VCC -VTP39)/R38 where VTP39 is the threshold voltage of transistor 39 and R38 is the resistance of resistor 38. Since the gate of transistor 40 is connected to the gate of transistor 39, I6 will mirror I7. However, if transistors 39 and 40 are ratioed, the currents will be ratioed. Typically I6 will be made about 10% of I7. Also typically, resistor 37 will be made about 1/6 of the value of resistor 38. Accordingly, VREF which appears across resistor 37 will be: ##EQU1## where W40 /W39 is the ratio of transistors 40 and 39. It can be seen that VREF is determined by VCC and two geometrical ratios that can be fixed as design values. Using the above mentioned ratios VREF will be slightly below 1/60 of VCC. This provides a substantial but not excessive value of op amp offset. Transistor 41 which has its gate returned to node 32 acts to cascode the source of I6.
IREF is programmed by external resistor 43 which is user selectable by virtue of terminal 44. I8 which flows in resistor 43 also flows in transistor 45 so that it is mirrored in transistor 46 to produce IREF. Transistor 47 which has its gate returned to node 32 cascodes IREF. The value of IREF flowing into node 25 will be: ##EQU2##
Combining the above two equations gives: ##EQU3##
Since IREF /VREF is the transconductance of op amp 10 this reduces to: ##EQU4## If transistors 39 and 45 are matched, the first term reduces to unity and Gm reduces to the reciprocal of resistor 43 multiplied by geometrically determined ratios. If the current mirror transistor ratios are each equal to 10:1 the combined third and fourth terms reduce to unity. Then if resistor 38 is made six times the value of resistor 37, as mentioned above, the formula finally reduces to: ##EQU5## Thus if resistor 43 is made 103 ohms, the value of Gm would be 6 millimhos.
Control line 13 can be coupled to the tail current source transistors in other op amps that duplicate op amp 10 except for having their imput terminals accessible. By programming the Gm of op amp 10 all of the interconnected op amps will be slaved to the same Gm.
The circuit of FIG. 2 was constructed with control line 13 being coupled to the tail current transistors feeding separate op amps that were constructed like op amp 10 except that no offset bias was applied to their input terminals. The following transistor size ratios were used:
Resistors 36-38 were made respectively 40K, 14.3K, and 86K ohms respectively. When resistor 43 made 10K ohms, op amp 10 was programmed for a transconductance of 0.0006 mhos. The other op amps had the same transconductance to within�10%.
The invention has been described and a CMOS version detailed. When a person skilled in the art reads the foregoing description, alternatives and equivalents, within the spirit and intent of the invention, will become apparent. For example, while CMOS is shown other approaches, such as NMOS, will apply. Accordingly, it is intended that the scope of the invention be limited only by the claims that follow.
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|Filing date
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|May 10, 1983
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|Variable gain circuit with improved gain response
|Feb 29, 2000
|Jun 4, 2002
|Motorola, Inc.
|Variable gain control circuit for a receiver and method therefor
|Nov 22, 2002
|Mar 16, 2004
|Motorola, Inc.
|Controlled bias current buffer and method thereof
|Jun 1, 1994
|Dec 7, 1994
|Philips Electronics N.V.
|Integrated amplifier with an accurately defined gain factor
|U.S. Classification
|330/261, 330/254, 330/253
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Mar 28, 1983
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