Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Detector of range of supply voltage in an integrated circuit
- Patent Title (中): 集成电路中电源电压范围的检测器
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Application No.: US10858231Application Date: 2004-06-01
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Publication No.: US06943592B2Publication Date: 2005-09-13
- Inventor: Hubert Degoirat , Mathieu Lisart
- Applicant: Hubert Degoirat , Mathieu Lisart
- Applicant Address: FR Gentilly
- Assignee: SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.A.
- Current Assignee: SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.A.
- Current Assignee Address: FR Gentilly
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Agent Lisa K. Jorgenson; James H. Morris
- Priority: FR9607368 19960613
- Main IPC: G01R19/165
- IPC: G01R19/165 ; H03K5/153

Abstract:
The disclosure relates to detectors of the level of supply voltage in an integrated circuit. The disclosed detector is designed to detect the crossing of low levels of supply voltage. It comprises a first arm to define a first reference voltage and a second arm to define a second reference voltage, these two reference voltages varying differently as a function of the supply voltage and their curves of variation intersecting for a value of the supply voltage located close to a desired threshold. A comparator receives the two reference voltages. The first arm has a resistive divider bridge, an intermediate connector of which constitutes the first reference voltage. The second arm comprises a resistor series-connected with a native P type MOS transistor, the point of junction of this resistor and this transistor constituting the second reference voltage. A non-linear element may be parallel-connected to the resistor which constitutes the first reference voltage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20040222827A1 Detector of range of supply voltage in an integrated circuit Public/Granted day:2004-11-11
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