Harris Corporation

Intersil Americas Inc.

Cindy C Manion

William R Young

Bogdan M Duduman

Perry W Frogge

Shawn Evans

David H Damarow

A method for soft-starting a voltage generator includes disabling an output driver; detecting the voltage on an output node; ramping a reference voltage at a controlled rate from a predetermined first level until the reference voltage reaches a second level that is a predetermined function of said output node voltage; enabling the output driver when the reference voltage reaches said second level; and then ramping the reference voltage and the output node voltage at a controlled rate to a boot voltage level. A soft-start circuit for an output voltage generator includes a comparator for causing a ramp generator to ramp the reference voltage and the voltage on the output node to a boot voltage level at a controlled rate once the comparator detects that the reference voltage is substantially equal to the voltage on the output node.

System and method for soft-starting a power converter with a pre-charged output

A digital half-band filter with mutliplications using Wallace trees which have lower bits truncated for reduction in size and with a true/complementer providing saturation compensation together with accumulator overflow compensation by monitoring bits more significant than the output bits.

True/complementer for a half-band filter

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Palm Bay, FL, United States of America

Cindy C Manion