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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hung Pham Le, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Exar Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 5/08 ; H03L 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 5/08 ; H03L 5/00 ;
Abstract
A rectifier circuit with a transistor having first and second electrodes coupled between an input and output of the rectifier circuit. A latch has an output connected to a control node of the transistor, and has first and second inputs connected to the input and output of the rectifier circuit, respectively. The invention provides a self-contained, self-powered, self-regulated low turn-on voltage diode-rectifier with maximum current (on-state conductance) when forward-biased. This circuit can be inserted between any two nodes and behaves like a Schottky diode.