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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2023
Empower Semiconductor, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Bai Nguyen, Fremont, CA (US);
Empower Semiconductor, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A circuit. In one aspect, the circuit includes a power input terminal and an output terminal, a high-side circuit coupled between the power input terminal and the output terminal, where the high-side circuit includes a first plurality of serially connected switches, and a low-side circuit coupled between the output terminal and a ground, where the low-side circuit includes a second plurality of serially connected switches, where a first voltage between the power input terminal and the output terminal is distributed across the first plurality of serially connected switches, where a second voltage between the output terminal and the ground is distributed across the second plurality of serially connected switches. In another aspect, the high-side and low-side circuits are arranged to limit a maximum voltage applied to each of the first plurality of switches and second plurality of switches to a fraction of a voltage at the power input terminal.