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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 1990
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1989
Applicant:
Inventor:
James J Locascio, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Micro Linear Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
363 39 ; 363 41 ;
Abstract
The present invention is for an architecture for an input circuit to a linear circuit having a circuit ground from a linear system having a system ground. The architecture has a linear input signal which is coupled into a current limiting input impedance. The current limiting input impedance is not connected to the system ground. A linear input circuit is coupled to receive the reduced input signal and is coupled to the circuit ground. Accordingly, the analog input to the linear input circuit is a current signal rather than a voltage signal.