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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2004
Pyung-moon Zhang, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Seung-keun Lee, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Pyung-Moon Zhang, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Seung-Keun Lee, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A voltage regulator circuit and a semiconductor memory device using the same are provided. The voltage regulator circuit regulates an input voltage to provide an output voltage. The voltage regulator circuit comprises a voltage divider to divide the output voltage, a comparator to determine whether the divided voltage is less than a reference voltage, a driver connected between the input voltage and the output voltage, and operating operate responsive to the comparator, and a controller to control the voltage divider to gradually vary the output voltage. The voltage divider includes a resistance that operates responsive to the controller and whose value varies in a binary weighted form.