Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reducing supply to ground current
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Application No.: US16934300Application Date: 2020-07-21
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Publication No.: US11342890B2Publication Date: 2022-05-24
- Inventor: Meghna Agrawal
- Applicant: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent Ebby Abraham; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Main IPC: H03F3/45
- IPC: H03F3/45 ; H03F1/26 ; H03K19/20

Abstract:
An apparatus to prevent supply-to-ground current in a comparator is disclosed. The apparatus includes circuitry to determine if first and second output nodes of the comparator have respectively reached first and second logic levels, and circuitry responsive to a determination that the voltage at the first and second output nodes of the comparator has reached the first and second logic levels, to generate a signal. In addition, the apparatus includes circuitry to supply the signal to a transistor, the signal to turn off the transistor and prevent the flow of supply-to-ground current through the comparator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200350871A1 REDUCING SUPPLY TO GROUND CURRENT Public/Granted day:2020-11-05
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