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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2015
Applicant:
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Eric Braun, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Monolithic Power Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 9/046 (2013.01);
Abstract
An ESD protection circuit used to protect a protected circuit coupled between a first node and a second node against an ESD event. The ESD protection circuit has a discharging circuit and a control circuit. The discharging circuit selectively provides a current path for discharging a current from the first node to the second node. The control circuit controls the discharging circuit to switch on the current path during an ESD event. The control circuit further controls the discharging circuit to switch off the current path during the normal operation of the protected circuit.