Patent ID: 9503090
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: H03K

Claim Text:
1. A level translator, comprising: a resistor divider; and a one-shot circuit which includes a pull-up stack of transistors in parallel with the resistor divider, and which the one-shot circuit conducts to assist during a transition from a first state to a second state through a conduction path provided by the transistors of the pull-up stack, and is non-conducting during a transition from the second state to the first state, wherein the resistor divider is switched on/off to provide an output at two different levels of VPP2 and VPP, where VPP2 is a low voltage for an inverter chain and VPP is the low voltage inverted to a high voltage, wherein the one-shot circuit translates from the low voltage to the high voltage using the transistors arranged in parallel with a first resistor of the resistor divider, and wherein the one-shot circuit is comprised of an inverter chain having outputs controlling gates of the transistors which are arranged in series, with one another, to provide a conduction path between an output level of the first resistor of the resistor divider.