Patent ID: 11916062
Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 23:
24. The microelectronic device of claim 23, wherein the voltage discriminator further includes:
a pull up transistor, including a drain coupled to the protected line, a source coupled to the reference line through a high impedance shunt and to the source of the upper input FET and the drain of the lower input FET, and a gate coupled to the blocking capacitor of the high bandwidth detector;
a pull down transistor, including a source coupled to the reference line, a drain coupled to the gate of the output FET and to the output line of the input high-pass filter, and a gate coupled to the first output line of the voltage discriminator; and
a Zener diode coupled between the second output line of the voltage discriminator and the reference line, wherein a threshold of the voltage discriminator is dependent on a breakdown voltage of the Zener diode.