Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Circuit to implement a diode function
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Application No.: US14657991Application Date: 2015-03-13
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Publication No.: US09892877B2Publication Date: 2018-02-13
- Inventor: Vratislav Michal , Denis Cottin
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS
- Applicant Address: FR Grenoble
- Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (ALPS) SAS
- Current Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (ALPS) SAS
- Current Assignee Address: FR Grenoble
- Agency: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group LLP
- Priority: FR1452101 20140313
- Main IPC: H01H47/00
- IPC: H01H47/00 ; H03K17/16 ; H03K17/30

Abstract:
A circuit including: a plurality of first switches connected in parallel between a first terminal and a second terminal; and a control circuit capable of implementing the following steps at each period of a clock signal: comparing the voltage between the first and second terminals with a reference voltage; if the voltage between the first and second terminals is greater than the reference voltage, turning on one of the first switches without modifying the state of the other switches; and if the voltage between the first and second terminals is smaller than the reference voltage, turning off one of the first switches without modifying the state of the other switches.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150262776A1 CIRCUIT TO IMPLEMENT A DIODE FUNCTION Public/Granted day:2015-09-17
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