Patent ID: 7868622

Claim:
A circuit for detecting power supply voltage drop, which detects a drop of a power supply voltage, comprising: a first transistor that is of a first conductive type and generates a source voltage based on a voltage obtained by subtracting an absolute value of a threshold voltage and an overdrive voltage from the power supply voltage with reference to the power supply voltage; a second transistor that is of the first conductive type and turned on/off based on the source voltage of the first transistor; a third transistor that is of a second conductive type and generates a source voltage based on a voltage obtained by adding an absolute value of a threshold voltage and an overdrive voltage to a ground voltage with reference to the ground voltage; a fourth transistor that is of the second conductive type and turned on/off based on the source voltage of the third transistor; a first constant current circuit that supplies a current to the first transistor; a second constant current circuit that supplies a current to each of the second transistor and the third transistor; and a third constant current circuit that supplies a current to the fourth transistor.