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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 06, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard P Fournel, Trets, FR;
Laurent Sourgen, Aix-en-Provence, FR;
Assignee:
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics, S.A., Gentilly Cedex, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
327546 ; 327 77 ; 327 79 ; 327143 ; 327198 ; 327 50 ; 377 60 ;
Abstract
A supply-voltage-monitoring circuit, for low-power integrated circuits, in which charge-sharing through a switched-capacitor chain is used to couple the supply voltage to a dynamic sensing node. The dynamic sensing node drives a half-latch, which is stable in a no-alarm condition.