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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:
May. 03, 1994
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
King F Lee, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (US);
Norman T Rollins, Sunrise, FL (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
328151 ; 328167 ; 307520 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reducing the settling time of a switched-capacitor circuit (10) which includes at least one capacitor (20) having at least one terminal connected to a switch. The method comprises the step of clocking the switched-capacitor circuit at a switching clocking frequency. In response to a control signal (51), the at least one terminal of the at least one capacitor (20) is biased to a reference voltage potential.