An interface circuit is disposed between a generator of control signals and a plurality of electronic switches in order to produce boosted voltage signals corresponding to the control signals for activating the electronic switches. To avoid the use of a capacitor with a high capacitance and thus to reduce an area of the integrated circuit, the interface circuit includes a generator of activation signals and a plurality of voltage multipliers each having an input connected to an output of the control signal generator, an output connected to at least one terminal for activating an electronic switch and two control terminals connected to an activation signal generator. Each voltage multiplier includes MOS transistors operatively coupled in series between the input and the output. The MOS transistors operate in response to the activation signals to produce a boosted voltage on the capacitor.

Interface circuit for boosting control signals

CASTELLO, RINALDO;
1999-01-01

Abstract

An interface circuit is disposed between a generator of control signals and a plurality of electronic switches in order to produce boosted voltage signals corresponding to the control signals for activating the electronic switches. To avoid the use of a capacitor with a high capacitance and thus to reduce an area of the integrated circuit, the interface circuit includes a generator of activation signals and a plurality of voltage multipliers each having an input connected to an output of the control signal generator, an output connected to at least one terminal for activating an electronic switch and two control terminals connected to an activation signal generator. Each voltage multiplier includes MOS transistors operatively coupled in series between the input and the output. The MOS transistors operate in response to the activation signals to produce a boosted voltage on the capacitor.
1999
The Electrical and Electronics Engineering category covers resources concerned with applications of electricity, generally those involving current flow through conductors, as in motors and generators. This category also covers the examination of the conduction of electricity through gases or a vacuum as well as through semiconducting materials. Topics include image and signal processing, electromagnetics, electronic components and materials, microwave technology, and microelectronics.
US 5955895
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics S.r.l.
BOOSTING; CMOS; INTERFACE
6 Brevetti::6.1 Brevetto
none
L., Tomasini; Castello, Rinaldo; G., Clerici; I., Bietti
info:eu-repo/semantics/patent
285
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