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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jeffrey B. Davis, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/40 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/40 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and a method for decreasing the voltage from a source. The apparatus includes a voltage reference source. The voltage reference source is coupled to a first transistor and to a decoupling capacitor. The first transistor is a negative-channel metal oxide (“NMOS”) transistor which has an output voltage equal to a gate source voltage of the NMOS transistor minus an NMOS transistor threshold voltage.