Capacitor for use in a capacitor divider that has a floating gate transistor as a corresponding capacitor
AssigneeAdvanced Micro Devices, Inc.
InventorsBinh Quang Le, Pau-Ling Chen, Shane Charles Hollmer
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Abstract
A capacitor divider includes two capacitors coupled in series between two voltage sources. A first capacitor is a floating gate capacitor having one plate being the control gate of a floating gate transistor structure and the other plate being a source, drain, and channel region of the floating gate transistor structure. The capacitive divider has the advantage of having at least one floating gate capacitor, can be implemented in a voltage regulator, and works for a variety of voltages across the capacitors.
Claims13
A capacitor divider comprising:
- a first and second voltage source, said second voltage source having a higher voltage than the voltage of said second voltage source;
- a first capacitor having a first terminal and a second terminal, said first capacitor comprising a floating gate transistor structure, wherein said first terminal is coupled to a floating gate of said floating gate transistor structure, and said second terminal is coupled to a substrate of said floating gate transistor structure and said second voltage source;
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- a second capacitor without a floating gate structure and having a first terminal and a second terminal, said first terminal of said second capacitor being coupled to said first terminal of said first capacitor, and said second terminal of said second capacitor being coupled to said second voltage source.
A method of providing a capacitor divider comprising the steps of:
- providing a first voltage source and a second voltage source, said second voltage source having a voltage higher than said first voltage source;
- providing a floating gate capacitor coupled between said first voltage source and an output terminal;
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- coupling a capacitor without a floating gate between said second terminal and said output terminal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.