Patent 7498876 was granted and assigned to Agere Systems on March, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An amplifier adapted to generate an analog output signal in response to a digital input signal and having an output stage powered by a power-supply circuit, which generates one or more power rails for the output stage such that at least one of these power rails tracks the output signal and substantially represents a biased and half-wave rectified version of that output signal.