Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Overvoltage protection circuit with digital control
- Patent Title (中): 带数字控制的过压保护电路
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Application No.: US14042436Application Date: 2013-09-30
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Publication No.: US09543752B2Publication Date: 2017-01-10
- Inventor: Jan Roelof Westra , Jan Mulder , Qiongna Zhang , Jeffrey Allan Riley , Davide Vecchi
- Applicant: BROADCOM CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CA Irvine
- Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Irvine
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Main IPC: H02H3/20
- IPC: H02H3/20 ; H01L23/60 ; H01L27/02 ; H01Q1/50

Abstract:
A device for digitally protecting against an overvoltage event may include a front-end circuit, an overvoltage protection circuit, and a protection switch. The protection switch may be coupled to the overvoltage protection circuit and may be configured to decouple the front-end circuit from an external medium, in response to a clamp signal. The overvoltage protection circuit may be configured to detect the overvoltage event at one or more nodes of a circuit. In response to the detection of the overvoltage event, the overvoltage protection circuit may generate the clamp signal to activate the protection switch.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150085412A1 OVERVOLTAGE PROTECTION CIRCUIT WITH DIGITAL CONTROL Public/Granted day:2015-03-26
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