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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2015
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Per Torstein Roine, Oslo, NO;
Stefan Dannenberger, Langhus, NO;
Danielle Griffith, Richardson, TX (US);
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 1/36 (2007.01); H03K 17/22 (2006.01); G05F 1/46 (2006.01); G05F 1/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 1/36 (2013.01); H03K 17/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of operating a power up circuit is disclosed. The method includes receiving an input voltage and creating a plurality of sample voltages from the input voltage. One of the sample voltages is selected and compared to a reference voltage. The power up circuit produces a brown-out signal in response to the step of comparing.