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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:
Jul. 14, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 26, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Bal S Sandhu, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Exel Microelectronics, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
327143 ; 327198 ;
Abstract
A power-up reset detector circuit is described which uses the threshold voltages of NMOS and PMOS transistors to detect the power-up of integrated circuits, and uses a current mirror to track power supply and process variations.