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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
May. 25, 2012
Nickole Gagne, Saco, ME (US);
Jouni Mika Kalervo Vuorinen, Oulu, FI;
Nickole Gagne, Saco, ME (US);
Jouni Mika Kalervo Vuorinen, Oulu, FI;
Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An integrated circuit (IC) comprises a transistor circuit and a voltage generator circuit. The voltage generator circuit is configured to generate an activation voltage for the transistor circuit using an output voltage at an output of the transistor circuit, and maintain a gate-source voltage (V) of the transistor circuit at a substantially constant voltage above the output voltage when a magnitude of the generated activation voltage is less than a device voltage rating of the IC and when the magnitude of the generated activation voltage meets or exceeds the device voltage rating of the IC.