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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:
Feb. 15, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Donald J Nguyen, Portland, OR (US);
Geron Mark Johnston, University Pl., WA (US);
Robert D Wickersham, Lacey, WA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F / ; G05B / ; H02H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
323282 ; 323351 ; 363 56 ;
Abstract
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a circuit includes a DC-to-DC converter. The DC-to-DC converter includes a high-side field effect transistor (FET) and FET driver. The gate of the high-side FET is AC coupled to the FET driver. The gate-to-source electrical path of the high-side FET is coupled to be driven by a substantially fixed voltage during circuit operation.