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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6686773 | Reducing short circuit power in CMOS inverter circuits A CMOS inverter circuit containing a PMOS transistor, a NMOS transistor, and feedback driver circuits not containing common input inverter circuits. The feedback driver circuits minimize (prevent) an amount of time both the NMOS and PMOS transistors are i... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6608905 | Microphone bias current measurement circuit A microphone bias current detection circuit includes: a microphone circuit 18; an amplifier 10 having a first output and a second output, the first output is coupled to the microphone circuit 18 for providing a bias current to the microphone circuit 18, t... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6577481 | Cascoded NPN electrostatic discharge protection circuit The electrostatic discharge protection circuit includes: at least two bipolar transistors Q1-Qn coupled in series; a top one Qn of the at least two bipolar transistors coupled to a protected node 10; a bottom one Q1 of the at least two bipolar transistors... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6573694 | Stable low dropout, low impedance driver for linear regulators A voltage regulator circuit that provides the current necessary to drive an output driver during transients and maintain low output impedance, while having a much better dropout voltage than a single source follower gain stage includes: an output driver 2... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6545511 | Adjustable temperature-compensated threshold circuit with trip-points exceeding the given supplies The temperature compensated threshold circuit includes: a positive trip point circuit 60 for providing a positive trip point when an input voltage PSM is higher than a positive supply voltage VCC; a negative trip point circuit 62 for providing a negative ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6542032 | Extremely linear, high speed, class AB rail to rail bipolar amplifier output stage with high output drive The amplifier output stage circuit includes: a translinear loop 30 having first and second input nodes Vin+ and Vin-; a first transistor Q7 coupled between a first output node of the translinear loop 30 and a first supply node V+; a first output transisto... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6541946 | Low dropout voltage regulator with improved power supply rejection ratio The low dropout voltage regulator (LDO) circuit with improved power supply rejection ratio includes: a first amplifier 20 having a first input coupled to a reference voltage node Vref ; a second amplifier 22 having an input coupled to an output... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6538500 | Power efficient line driver with 4X supply voltage swing and active termination A differential line driver with 4X supply voltage swing with a 1:1 transformer, which enhances the loop length for applications such as digital subscriber line includes: a differential circuit having first and second input nodes, first and second output n... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6535055 | Pass device leakage current correction circuit for use in linear regulators The leakage current correction circuit uses a dummy device Mleak to detect leakage current. The dummy device is a scaled down version of the pass element Mpass. A current router is used to either gain up the dummy leakage current and apply it to the outpu... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6529237 | Complete CDS/PGA sample and hold amplifier A correlated double sampled/programmable gain amplifier (CDS/PGA) is disclosed which is operable to precondition a CCD output analog signal. The CDS/PGA includes an operational amplifier that is configured in a sample hold operation. The single-ended inpu... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6529048 | Dynamic slew-rate booster for CMOS-opamps The opamp with a slew rate booster includes a first high side transistor 23 coupled to a first differential output node OUT-; a second high side transistor 26 coupled to a second differential output node OUT+; a first booster circuit 72 coupled to the con... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6525594 | Eliminating power-down popping in audio power amplifiers The circuit includes: a transistor 22; and a switch 32 coupled to a backgate of the transistor 22 for switching between a power supply node and current-path node of the transistor 22 to prevent a voltage on the backgate from dropping below the voltage on ... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6501305 | Buffer/driver for low dropout regulators The buffer/driver for low dropout regulators (LDO) uses a feedback amplifier with low output impedance to drive the gate of the pass device MP6 of the regulator. This effectively pushes the gate pole out to a higher frequency. The feedback amplifier is de... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6498525 | Configurable dual-supply voltage translating buffer The voltage configurable circuit includes: a first transistor 20 having a first end coupled to a first power supply node VCCA; a second transistor 21 having a first end coupled to a second power supply node VCCB and cross-coupled with the first transistor... | 12/24/2002 |
| 6484194 | Low cost multiplier block with chain capability This application describes a method of multiplying numbers represented in multiple-word chains. The multiplication scheme allows for the multiplication of both signed and unsigned numbers of varying lengths. The multiplier block 30 executes a 17-bit by 17... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6469884 | Internal protection circuit and method for on chip programmable poly fuses An integrated circuit (10) having at least one programmable fuse (F1) and ESD circuitry (MN3, MN1) preventing the fuse (F1) from being unintentionally blown when a voltage transient exists on a main voltage potential (Vmain | 10/22/2002 |
