Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic threshold generator for use in adaptive body biasing of a MOS
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Application No.: US14825267Application Date: 2015-08-13
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Publication No.: US09667138B2Publication Date: 2017-05-30
- Inventor: Min Chen , Wen Liu
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics (Shenzhen) R&D Co. Ltd
- Applicant Address: CN Shenzhen
- Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (SHENZHEN) R&D CO. LTD
- Current Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS (SHENZHEN) R&D CO. LTD
- Current Assignee Address: CN Shenzhen
- Agency: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
- Priority: CN201510472776 20150804
- Main IPC: H02M3/08
- IPC: H02M3/08 ; G05F3/20 ; G05F3/24

Abstract:
An electronic device includes a transistor having a body and a body biasing circuit. The body biasing circuit includes a threshold estimator circuit to estimate a threshold voltage of the transistor and a comparison circuit to compare the threshold voltage of the transistor to a reference threshold voltage and to generate a comparison signal based thereupon. A bias adjust circuit generates a body biasing voltage that biases the body of the transistor as a function of the comparison signal, the body biasing voltage being a voltage that, when applied to the body of the transistor, adjusts the threshold voltage thereof to be equal to the reference threshold voltage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170040889A1 DYNAMIC THRESHOLD GENERATOR FOR USE IN ADAPTIVE BODY BIASING OF A MOS Public/Granted day:2017-02-09
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