Inventors:
Khin Htoo - San Jose CA, US
Feng Pan - Fremont CA, US
Byungki Woo - San Jose CA, US
Trung Pham - Fremont CA, US
Yuxin Wang - Sunnyvale CA, US
Assignee:
SanDisk Technologies Inc. - Plano TX
International Classification:
G05F 1/10
Abstract:
A charge pump circuit for generating an output voltage is described. Charge pump circuits typically have two branches. As the clocks supplying the branches of a charge pump circuit alternate, the output of each branch will alternately provide an output voltage, which are then combined to form the pump output. The techniques described here allow charge to be transferred between the two branches, so that as the capacitor of one branch discharges, it is used to charge up the capacitor in the other branch. An exemplary embodiment using a voltage doubler-type of circuit, with the charge transfer between the branches accomplished using a switch controller by a boosted version of the clock signal, which is provided by a one-sided voltage doubler.