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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2012

Filed:

Jul. 15, 2009
Applicants:

Kimo Y. F. Tam, Lincoln, MA (US);

Jennifer Lloyd, North Andover, MA (US);

Inventors:

Kimo Y. F. Tam, Lincoln, MA (US);

Jennifer Lloyd, North Andover, MA (US);

Assignee:

Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In embodiments of the present invention, the problems of poor low-frequency response, slow speed, high cost and high power consumption in conventional voltage translators are addressed by processing high frequency and low frequency components of an input signal separately in two parallel stages without the use of large passive components or slow devices. At the output, the processed high frequency and low frequency components are seamlessly merged at a combining stage that maintains the integrity of the frequency response over the complete translator bandwidth.


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