Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Switched-capacitor charge pumps
- Patent Title (中): 开关电容充电泵
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Application No.: US12778960Application Date: 2010-05-12
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Publication No.: US07994845B2Publication Date: 2011-08-09
- Inventor: Fadi H. Gebara , Jente B. Kuang , Abraham Mathews
- Applicant: Fadi H. Gebara , Jente B. Kuang , Abraham Mathews
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Libby Z. Toub; Jack V. Musgrove
- Main IPC: G05F3/16
- IPC: G05F3/16 ; G05F1/46 ; H02M3/18

Abstract:
A switched-capacitor charge pump comprises a two-phase charging circuit, cross-coupled transistors connected to output nodes of the switched capacitors, and a pump output connected to source terminals of the cross-coupled transistors. The charge pump has side transistors for boosting charge transfer, and gating logic of the side transistors includes level shifters which control connections to the pump output or a reference voltage. Negative and positive charge pump embodiments are provided. The charging circuit utilizes non-overlapping wide and narrow clock signals to generate multiple gating signals. The pump clock circuit preferably provides independent, programmable adjustment of the widths of the wide and narrow clock signals. An override mode can be provided using clamping circuits which shunt the pump output to the second nodes of the switched capacitors.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100220541A1 SWITCHED-CAPACITOR CHARGE PUMPS Public/Granted day:2010-09-02
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