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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2019
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Bradford Lawrence Hunter, Spicewood, TX (US);
Timothy F. Murphy, Ramona, CA (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 5/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 5/24 (2013.01);
Abstract
A monitoring circuit is implemented for comparing a sampled voltage taken from a selected sampling capacitor and a reference voltage from a voltage buffer (). The voltage buffer () is configurable according to programming provided to a programmable logic controller, PLC, (). Comparisons may be made on a periodic basis, such as a time-division multiplexed basis, in connection with register settings in the PLC ().