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Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2013
Applicant:

Cirrus Logic, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Dan Shen, Austin, TX (US);

Johann Gaboriau, Austin, TX (US);

Lingli Zhang, Austin, TX (US);

Christian Larsen, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Cirrus Logic, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/00 (2006.01); H02M 1/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 1/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods may include a switch coupled at its gate terminal to an input signal voltage, the input signal voltage for controlling a gate voltage of a gate terminal of a driver device coupled at its non-gate terminals between a rail voltage and an output node. The systems and methods may also include a diode having a first terminal and a second terminal, the diode coupled to a non-gate terminal of the switch such that when the switch is enabled, the first terminal is electrically coupled to the gate terminal of the driver device and the second terminal is electrically coupled to the output node.


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