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Power supply switching at circuit block level to reduce integrated circuit input leakage currents
   
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US Patent 7498845
Issued Date
March 3, 2009
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Leakage currents at IC inputs can be avoided while the IC is disabled by providing a switch that is responsive to deactivation of an enable input to isolate functional circuitry of the IC from one of the power supply nodes of the IC. This eliminates power supply current while the IC is disabled. Further unwanted current flow can be avoided while the IC is disabled by providing a switch that is responsive to the enable input for selectively connecting and disconnecting the base of a reference voltage transistor to and from the transistor's grounded collector, which collector is defined by the substrate of the IC. Disconnection of the base from the grounded substrate/collector eliminates base current and thus prevents emitter-to-collector current flow through the transistor when the IC is disabled.
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Published
March 3, 2009
Application Number
11/880,648
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July 23, 2007
US Classification
326/95   326/93 326/98
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H03K   19/096   (20060101)  
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This application is a continuation of prior U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/065,178 filed on Feb. 24, 2005 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,248,080.
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