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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2019
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/18 (2006.01); H03K 17/687 (2006.01); H02M 1/08 (2006.01); H02M 3/158 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/687 (2013.01); H02M 1/08 (2013.01); H02M 3/1582 (2013.01);
Abstract
A gate-charge harvester includes a harvest capacitor that has a first plate and a second plate. The second plate is coupled to a lower rail and the first plate is coupled to send a voltage towards a regulator. The gate-charge harvester also includes a low-side harvest transistor having a first terminal coupled to a gate of a low-side power transistor and a second terminal coupled to the first plate.