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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2014
Thomas J. Reiter, Dearborn, MI (US);
Ibrahim S. Kandah, Novi, MI (US);
Thomas J. Reiter, Dearborn, MI (US);
Ibrahim S. Kandah, Novi, MI (US);
FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A circuit is configured for providing reverse battery protection. The circuit includes a load driver circuit having at least a first half-bridge circuit with topside and bottomside transistors coupled at a midpoint node by a first current terminal of both the topside and bottomside transistors. A second current terminal of the bottomside transistor is coupled to a voltage common node. The circuit also includes: a reverse battery protection transistor having a first current terminal coupled to a battery supply node and a second current terminal coupled to a second current terminal of the topside transistor; a bootstrap capacitor having a first terminal coupled to a the midpoint node between the topside and bottomside transistors of the first half-bridge circuit; and a diode having an anode coupled to a second terminal of the bootstrap capacitor and a cathode coupled to a control terminal of the reverse battery protection transistor.