The method controls, in a feedback mode, a common collector or common drain amplifier, biased with a voltage applied on a bias node produced by a biasing circuit that generates a temperature compensated reference voltage from which the bias voltage applied on the bias node of the amplifier is derived. The quiescent voltage on the output node of the amplifier is made substantially independent from temperature by sensing the quiescent voltage on the output node, and adjusting the voltage applied on the bias node of the amplifier based upon the difference between the reference voltage and the sensed quiescent voltage for maintaining it constant.

A CMOS driving circuit, wherein an output buffer stage with a transistor switch is added to the final buffer stage of a conventional CMOS driving circuit to drive a power transistor. The output buffer stage has two input terminals for DC input voltage, and uses the high voltage of a voltage converting circuit in a multi-voltage system as one DC input voltage. The driving load capacity of the CMOS driving circuit is improved by converting the higher of the two DC input voltages to a modulated driving voltage and outputting it via an output terminal, so that the on-resistance of a power transistor connected with the output buffer stage is lowered, the power consumption of the power transistor is reduced, the output capacity is improved, and the area of the power transistor is lowered with the same output power.

A device comprises an active-pull-up stage and an active-pull-down stage. The device receives at least one reference voltage and provides an regulated output voltage to at least one load. The active-pull-up and active-pull-down stages are adapted to source or sink a current delivered to or received from the at least one load to regulate the output voltage provided to the at least one load. Other embodiments and methods are also claimed and described.

For one disclosed embodiment, error is sensed in a voltage at an output node. One or more analog signals are generated based on the sensed error. One or more generated analog signals are converted into one or more digital signals. The voltage at the output node is controlled in response to the one or more digital signals.

A method is provided for improving the performance of a circuit containing a three-terminal device. In the operation of a circuit containing three-terminal device 10, the influence of the Early effect pertaining to the three-terminal device of a FET is reduced. In order to reduce the influence, control unit 30 is set for reducing the Early effect component caused by a three-terminal device. As a result, by controlling the potential of the second terminal (such as drain) of the device as a response to a first signal pertaining to the input signal received by the first terminal (such as gate) of the device, it is possible for the potential difference between the second terminal (drain) and the third terminal (such as source) of the device to be essentially constant.