PULSE GENERATOR WITH SWITCHED CAPACITORS

• US 20170047911A1
• Filed: 11/23/2015
• Published: 02/16/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hosokawa, Kohji, Ishii, Masatoshi, Ritter, Mark B., Yasuda, Takeo
• Application Number:
  US14/949,338
• Publication Number:
  US 20170047911A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01L 28/40 Capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 3/356 Bistable circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 4/023 by repetitive charge or discharge of a capacitor, analogue generators

Abstract

A pulse generator and a method of fabricating a pulse generator are described. The pulse generator includes an input node to receive an input voltage, a first capacitor, and a second capacitor. The first capacitor is positioned between the input node and the second capacitor. An output node outputs an output voltage with a pulse shape, and the pulse generator also includes at least one switch between the input node and the second capacitor. The at least one switch controls the pulse shape of the output voltage.

Claims

1. A method of fabricating a pulse generator, the method comprising;

fabricating an input node to receive a constant input voltage;

fabricating an output node to output an output voltage with a pulse shape;

fabricating a first capacitor and a second capacitor between the input node and the output node, the fabricating the first capacitor including arranging the first capacitor between the input node and the second capacitor and the fabricating the second capacitor including coupling the second capacitor to the output node; and

fabricating at least one switch between the input node and the second capacitor, the at least one switch controlling the pulse shape of the output voltage.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the fabricating the at least one switch includes fabricating one switch coupled to a first capacitor node of the first capacitor such that, in a first position, the one switch connects the first capacitor node to the input node and, in a second position, the one switch connects the first capacitor node to a second capacitor node of the second capacitor that is coupled to the output node.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the fabricating the at least one switch includes fabricating a first switch and a second switch.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the fabricating the first switch and the second switch includes positioning first switch between the input node and the first capacitor and positioning the second switch between the first capacitor and the second capacitor.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the fabricating the at least one switch includes implementing the at least one switch with a transfer gate and an inverter.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising fabricating a first metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) and a second MOSFET to be coupled to the output node.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the fabricating the first capacitor and the second capacitor includes implementing at least one of the first capacitor and the second capacitor as a variable capacitor.