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Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016

Filed:

May. 29, 2015
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Jeffrey L. Sonntag, Austin, TX (US);

Timothy J. Dupuis, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/687 (2006.01); H02M 3/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/687 (2013.01); H02M 3/07 (2013.01);
Abstract

An oscillator supplies a clock signal having a frequency determined in part according to a received current. A transmit side charge pump is coupled to the clock signal and boosts a voltage supplied to the charge pump to generate a boosted voltage. A driver circuit drives a transmit signal having a frequency based on the clock signal and a voltage based on the boosted voltage to a capacitive isolation communication path. A receive side charge pump is coupled to the isolation capacitors of the isolation communication path and boosts a voltage of the received signal on the receive side of the isolation communication path and supplies a gate signal with the boosted voltage to a gate of at least one transistor.


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