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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:
May. 17, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 20, 2015
Applicant:

Silicon Laboratories Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Pavel Konecny, Asker, NO;

Dag Pettersen, Oslo, NO;

Assignee:

Silicon Laboratories Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/10 (2006.01); G05F 1/46 (2006.01); H03K 5/24 (2006.01); G05F 3/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F 1/463 (2013.01); G05F 3/262 (2013.01); H03K 5/24 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one aspect, an apparatus includes a ready circuit to output a ready indicator when a supply voltage provided to the ready circuit and a voltage regulator is sufficient to operate the voltage regulator. In turn, the voltage regulator is to receive the supply voltage and output a regulated voltage, receive a first current from the ready circuit and control the regulated voltage based on the first current when the ready indicator is inactive. The apparatus further includes a bias circuit to receive the regulated voltage and generate one or more bias currents, which may be provided to an output circuit to output one or more bias outputs to one or more client circuits therefrom.


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