Patent ID: 7902799

Claim:
A semiconductor integrated circuit comprising: first, second, third, fourth, and fifth terminals; a first power MOSFET which has a drain terminal connected to the first terminal and a source terminal connected to the second terminal; a second power MOSFET which has a drain terminal connected to the second terminal and a source terminal connected to the third terminal; and a driver circuit which has a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a first output terminal, a second output terminal and a MOSFET, wherein a source-drain route of the MOSFET of the driver circuit is coupled between the first input terminal of the driver circuit and the second input terminal of the driver circuit, the first input terminal of the driver circuit is coupled to the fifth terminal, the second input terminal of the driver circuit is coupled to the fourth terminal, the first output terminal of the driver circuit is coupled to a gate terminal of the first power MOSFET, and the second output terminal of the driver circuit is coupled to a gate terminal of the second power MOSFET.