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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2006
Echere Iroaga, Mountain View, CA (US);
Boris Murmann, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Echere Iroaga, Mountain View, CA (US);
Boris Murmann, Palo Alto, CA (US);
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Driver circuits for switched-capacitor circuits are implemented using a variety of methods and devices. According to one such circuit, a switched-capacitor driver circuit is implemented for producing an output signal by driving a capacitive output load in response to step input signals. The driver circuit includes output circuitry that drives the capacitive output load toward a steady-state mode responsive to one of the step input signals and control circuitry that, before realizing the steady-state mode, inhibits the output circuitry from driving the capacitive output load to the steady-state mode.