Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Specific identifiable device – circuit – or system – With specific source of supply or bias voltage
Reexamination Certificate
2006-10-10
2006-10-10
Zweizig, Jeffrey (Department: 2816)
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Specific identifiable device, circuit, or system
With specific source of supply or bias voltage
C327S536000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07119606
ABSTRACT:
An N-FET headswitch has improved performance (e.g., less leakage current, lower ON resistance, and smaller area) over a conventional P-FET headswitch. The N-FET headswitch includes at least one N-FET device and couples between a power supply and a load circuit, which may be, e.g., a microprocessor, a digital signal processor, or a memory unit. The headswitch couples the power supply to the load circuit when the headswitch is enabled and cuts off the power supply from the load circuit when disabled. A charge pump couples to the headswitch and provides a control signal. This control signal is sufficiently high when the headswitch is enabled to ensure that the N-FET device operates in a linear region and has a small drain to source voltage drop. The headswitch may be operated as a power switch or in a feedback configuration to implement a linear or a digital voltage regulator.
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Brown Charles D.
Chen Alex C.
QUALCOMM Incorporated
Wadsworth Philip R.
Zweizig Jeffrey
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