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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2012
Chin-hui Wang, Taipei County, TW;
Peng-ju Lan, Taipei County, TW;
Chen-jie Ruan, Shanghai, CN;
RICHPOWER MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION, Grand Cayman, KY;
Abstract
A state cycling apparatus uses a capacitor instead of complicated and expensive microcontroller to fulfill a state cycling function of a system. The state cycling apparatus includes an internal circuit in the system connected to the capacitor. In a first embodiment, the internal circuit reads the voltage level on the capacitor at power on to determine a current state for the system, and writes the voltage level corresponding to a next state of the system to the capacitor. In a second embodiment, the system reads the state data stored in the internal circuit to determine a current state for the system at power on, the capacitor is charged during the system is under power on, and the capacitor provides power for the internal circuit to store a state data after the system is powered off.