ZNBG6000

FET BIAS CONTROLLER ISSUE 2 - JUNE 1998 DEVICE DESCRIPTION The ZNBG series of devices are designed to meet the bias requirements of GaAs and HEMT FETs commonly used in satellite receiver LNBs, PMR, cellular telephones etc. with a minimum of external components. With the addition of two capacitors and resistors the devices provide drain voltage and current control for a number of external grounded source FETs, generating the regulated negative rail required for FET gate biasing whilst operating from a single supply. This negative bias, at -3 volts, can also be used to supply other external circuits. The ZNBG4000/1 and ZNBG6000/1 contain four and six bias stages respectively. In setting drain current the ZNBG4000/1 two resistors allows individual FET pair control to different levels, the ZNBG6000/1 two resistors split control between two and four FETs. This allows the operating current of input FETs to be adjusted to minimise noise, whilst the following FET stages can separately be adjus...