Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Capacitive coupling, asynchronous electronic level shifter circuit
- Patent Title (中): 电容耦合,异步电子电平转换电路
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Application No.: US13753390Application Date: 2013-01-29
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Publication No.: US08981830B2Publication Date: 2015-03-17
- Inventor: Mauro Scandiuzzo , Salvatore Valerio Cani , Claudio Mucci , Roberto Canegallo , Pier Luigi Rolandi
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Agency: Seed IP Law Group PLLC
- Priority: ITTO2012A0074 20120130
- Main IPC: H03L5/00
- IPC: H03L5/00 ; H03K17/16 ; H03K19/0185

Abstract:
An asynchronous level shifter electronic circuit including: a transmitter, which can be coupled to a first voltage and generates a communication signal; a receiver, which can be coupled to a second voltage; and a capacitive coupling stage, which receives the communication signal and supplies a corresponding filtered signal to the receiver. The receiver includes: a threshold device, which has an input terminal and an output terminal and switches an electrical quantity on the output terminal between a first value and a second value, as a function of corresponding transitions through a threshold of a first intermediate signal present on the input terminal, to generate a second intermediate signal; and a biasing circuit, which generates the first intermediate signal to have a d.c. component, which is a function of the second intermediate signal, and superposed on which is a variable component, which is a function of the filtered signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130194021A1 CAPACITIVE COUPLING, ASYNCHRONOUS ELECTRONIC LEVEL SHIFTER CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2013-08-01
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