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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2006
Applicant:
Sergio Morini, Pavia, IT;
Inventor:
Sergio Morini, Pavia, IT;
Assignee:
International Rectifier Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 25/00 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2007.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An integrated circuit for feeding data acquisition circuits is provided. The integrated circuit including an inverter application having a half-bridge driver for driving high and low side switches connected in a half bridge, a data acquisition circuit formed in monolithic high voltage technology, and a Low Voltage Floating Supply (LVFS) circuit for providing voltage to the data acquisition circuit, the LVFS circuit being formed in a floating n-epi pocket biased with a voltage that is lower than a maximum value of a voltage present in the n-epi pocket.