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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2016
Applicant:
Infineon Technologies Austria Ag, Villach, AT;
Inventors:
Severin Kampl, Villach, AT;
Matteo-Alessandro Kutschak, Ludmannsdorf, AT;
Assignee:
Infineon Technologies Austria AG, Villach, AT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/017 (2006.01); H03K 17/74 (2006.01); H03K 17/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/74 (2013.01); H03K 17/165 (2013.01);
Abstract
In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes driving a transistor device by a driver having an output coupled to a control node of the transistor through a capacitor and limiting a magnitude of a voltage of one polarity between the control node and a first load node of the transistor device by a rectifier circuit.