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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2020
Applicant:
Psemi Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventor:
Alper Genc, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
PSEMI CORPORATION, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/693 (2006.01); H03K 17/76 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/693 (2013.01); H03K 17/76 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and devices to mitigate de-biasing caused by an undesired gate induced drain body leakage current in FET switch stacks are disclosed. The devices utilize diode stacks to generate discharge paths for the undesired current. The disclosed teachings are applicable to both shunt and series implementations of FET switch stacks.