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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2006
Applicant:
Farhood Moraveji, Saratoga, CA (US);
Inventor:
Farhood Moraveji, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for providing stable voltage references from within a low dropout voltage regulator. Some embodiments utilize dependable semiconductor inherent attributes to generate a voltage reference, such as a band-gap voltage reference.