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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8067973 | Driver for a flyback converter using a transconductance amplifier and a comparator The present invention discloses a smart driver used in flyback converters adopting a transconductance amplifier to turn on a synchronous rectifier FET, and a comparator to quickly turn off the synchronous rectifier FET. ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 7417485 | Differential energy difference integrator Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a high-speed differential energy difference integrator (EDI) for adaptive equalizers. In an embodiment, the EDI includes two differential full-wave rectifiers providing differential outputs that are cross-couple... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7132696 | Intermeshed guard bands for multiple voltage supply structures on an integrated circuit, and methods of making same The present invention is generally directed to intermeshed guard bands for multiple voltage supply regions or structures on an integrated circuit, and methods of making same. In one illustrative embodiment, an integrated circuit is provided that comprises a pluralit... | 11/07/2006 |
| 6879534 | Method and system for minimizing differential amplifier power supply sensitivity The invention includes an apparatus and a method for minimizing power supply sensitivity of a differential amplifier. The apparatus includes a current source providing a differential amplifier bias current to a common source node of the differential amplifier. A vol... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6870417 | Circuit for loss-less diode equivalent A loss-less diode equivalent circuit which functions to reduce and eliminate the forward bias voltage or drop associated with conventional diodes. The loss-less diode comprises a reverse connected MOSFET device which is configured with a clamping circuit and coupled... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6765425 | Mosgate device driver for synchronous rectification of a 3 phase sinusoidal source A rectifying circuit and method to produce a DC output by rectifying a sinusoidal source having a plurality of output phase voltages and a plurality of phase-to-phase voltages, the rectifying circuit including a bridge circuit coupled to the output phase voltages, t... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6437621 | Waveform shaping device A waveform shaping circuit is provided so that the duty factor of clock pulses can be set to 50% with high accuracy even if the clock pulses are of a low voltage and a high frequency. An inverter which receives the clock pulses through an alternating curr... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6366152 | Vector-signal processing circuit A vector-signal processing circuit can be operated with low power consumption and can be configured so as to be cheap. Sensor signals in three-axial directions are individually rectified by full-wave-rectifier circuits individually formed by combining fou... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6271712 | Synchronous rectifier and method of operation A synchronous rectifier circuit (10) includes a polarity comparator (14) that generates a signal to a driver circuit (16) for controlling the voltage at the gate of a power MOSFET (60). The power MOSFET (60) is switched to operate in the conduction mode a... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6111451 | Efficient VCCP supply with regulation for voltage control A highly efficient compact multiple output voltage generation circuit is designed for use in integrated circuit devices such as DRAMs which require multiple internal voltage supplies for optimum performance. An oscillator is connected to a primary coil of... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5907258 | Fully integrated two axis shock detector The present invention discloses a fully integrated precision HDA shock sense circuit with high-order filters implemented in integrated circuit technology. Filters are integrated with an improved on-chip bias generator so that they can provide stable, trim... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5900764 | Efficient Vccp supply with regulation for voltage control A highly efficient compact multiple output voltage generation circuit is designed for use in integrated circuit devices such as DRAMs which require multiple internal voltage supplies for optimum performance. An oscillator is connected to a primary coil of... | 05/04/1999 |
| 5561383 | Switchable peak/average detect circuit A circuit that can switch between a peak detect and an averaging mode is described. In a preferred embodiment, when the circuit is in a peak detect mode a first transistor is on and a second is off, enabling an amplifier in the circuit to produce a signal... | 10/01/1996 |
| 4546274 | Non-linear integration circuit In a non-linear integration circuit, an audio sine wave signal is processed by a rectifier circuit and a smoothing circuit so that a DC output is obtained according to the amplitude of the signal. A hybrid diode which is similar in voltage-current charact... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4114050 | Integrating circuit An integrating circuit comprises an integrating amplifier having an inverting input for receiving a signal to be integrated, and a feedback capacitor connected between the output of the amplifier and its inverting input. The output of the integrating ampl... | 09/12/1978 |
