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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2015
Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Matthew A. Zeleznik, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method of detecting defects in a high impedance network of a MEMs microphone sensor interface circuit. The method includes adding a high-voltage reset switch to a high-voltage high impedance network, closing the high-voltage reset switch during a start-up phase of the MEMs microphone sensor interface circuit, simultaneously closing a low-voltage reset switch of a low-voltage high impedance network during the start-up phase, simultaneously opening the high-voltage reset switch and the low-voltage reset switch at the end of the start-up phase, and detecting a defect in the high-voltage high impedance network or the low-voltage high impedance network immediately after opening the high-voltage reset switch and the low-voltage reset switch.