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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
May. 17, 2016
Renesas Electronics Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Ryo Kanda, Tokyo, JP;
Koichi Yamazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Kuroiwa, Tokyo, JP;
Masatoshi Maeda, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsu Toda, Tokyo, JP;
RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A driver IC includes a ring-shaped termination area, and a first area and a second area that are respectively arranged outside and inside the termination area on a layout. A sense MOS that is arranged between floating terminal and a first sense node and is driven at a power supply voltage is formed in the termination area. A fault detection circuit that detects presence of a fault when a voltage of the first sense node is higher than a decision voltage that has been deteLutined in advance in a period of time that a low side driver is driving a low side transistor into an ON state is formed in the first area.