Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Signal converting – shaping – or generating – Current driver
Patent
1997-06-02
1999-04-06
Tran, Toan
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Signal converting, shaping, or generating
Current driver
327427, 327327, H03B 100, H03K 17687
Patent
active
058923799
ABSTRACT:
A circuit and method protect a transistor (68, 70) from damage when controlling an input signal (V.sub.PROG) that exceeds a gate to channel stress voltage of the transistor. A small, low current protection transistor (64, 66) is serially coupled to the gate electrode of the transistor being protected. The gate of the protection transistor is biased to a voltage (V.sub.P, V.sub.N) of lower magnitude than the input signal to limit the voltage applied to the gate of the protected transistor to a value within the stress voltage of the protected transistor.
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patent: 4508978 (1985-04-01), Reddy
patent: 4678950 (1987-07-01), Mitake
patent: 5064453 (1991-11-01), Pedersen
Buxo Juan
Loechelt Gary H.
Parris Patrice M.
Prendergast E. James
Wild Andreas A.
Atkins Robert D.
Dover Rennie William
Motorola Inc.
Nguyen Hai L.
Tran Toan
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