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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:
Aug. 28, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Joel Page, Austin, TX (US);
Edwin De Angel, Austin, TX (US);
Wai Laing Lee, Austin, TX (US);
Lei Wang, College Station, TX (US);
Hong Helena Zheng, Irvine, CA (US);
Chung-Kai Chow, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Cirrus Logic, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 2/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 2/100 ;
Abstract
A switched converter uses two series connected complementary CMOS devices and has a square wave source for activating one CMOS device while deactivating the other; and a break before make circuit connected between the square wave source and said complementary CMOS devices to ensure that one device is substantially completely off before the other device turns on. The switched converter is programmable as to frequency, phase and duty cycle.