Booster circuit

H Tanikawa - US Patent 10,284,184, 2019 - Google Patents
A charge pump unit including a capacitor that accumulates a charge on an output node
according to a first clock signal and a transfer gate that takes in and applies a voltage of an …

Individual step-up circuit, step-up circuit, and electronic apparatus

S Yoshida, T Nakamura - US Patent 11,133,743, 2021 - Google Patents
To provide an individual boost circuit capable of boosting a minute power voltage to a target
voltage more reliably. An individual boost circuit includes a first PMOS transistor that has a …

Charge pump for scaling the highest of multiple voltages when at least one of the multiple voltages varies

S Varadarajan, AJ D'souza, S Somayajula - US Patent 10,637,402, 2020 - Google Patents
A charge pump includes a scaler circuit and a selector circuit. The scaler circuit is designed
to scale an intermediate voltage by a scaling factor to generate a scaled voltage. The …

Electronic device

T Ikehashi - US Patent 9,490,073, 2016 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND A variable capacitor adopting micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)
technology is proposed. In such a capaci tor, capacitance can be varied with a change in …

Circuit and method for internally assessing dielectric reliability of a semiconductor technology

M Röhner, S Aresu, M Faricelli - US Patent 10,242,922, 2019 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A semiconductor wafer includes dielectric regions of differ ent thicknesses,
some of the dielectric regions being thinner and other ones of the dielectric regions being …

Adjustable biasing circuits for MEMS capacitive microphones

MA Zeleznik, JM Muza - US Patent 9,306,449, 2016 - Google Patents
An adjustable charge pump system. The system includes a voltage regulator, a clock circuit,
a voltage adjustment circuit, and a charge pump. The voltage regulator is configured to …