Bus switch circuit with back-gate control during power down

• US 7,667,525 B2
• Filed: 04/06/2005
• Issued: 02/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Texas Instruments, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Texas Instruments, Inc.
• Inventors: Grimone, Leo J. III
• Primary Examiner(s): TRA, ANH QUAN
• Application Number:
  US11/099,965
• Publication Number:
  US 20060226887A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,784 Days
• Field of Search: 327/404, 327/427, 327/434, 326/113, 326/81, 326/83
• US Class Current: 327/427
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/063 in field-effect transistor switches
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 17/165 by feedback from the output circuit to the control circuit

Abstract

The bus switch with back gate control circuit includes: an NMOS transistor coupled between a first port and a second port; a PMOS transistor coupled in parallel with the NMOS transistor; a first blocking device coupled between the first port and a control node of the PMOS transistor; a second blocking device coupled between the second port and the control node of the PMOS transistor; a first pull-down device coupled to a back gate of the NMOS transistor; and a second pull-down device coupled to the back gate of the NMOS transistor, wherein the pull down device is controlled by a power supply node and the control node of the PMOS transistor.

Claims

1. A bus switch circuit comprising:

a first terminal;

a second terminal;

a first NMOS transistor that is coupled to the first terminal at its source and the second terminal at its drain;

a second NMOS transistor that is coupled to the first terminal at its drain;

a third NMOS transistor that is coupled to the second terminal at its drain;

a first PMOS transistor that is coupled to the first terminal at its drain;

a second PMOS transistor that is coupled to the second terminal at its drain;

a third PMOS transistor that is coupled to the sources of the first and second PMOS transistors at its source;

a fourth NMOS transistor that is coupled to the gate of the third PMOS transistor at its gate; and

a fifth NMOS transistor that is coupled to the drains of the third PMOS transistor and the fourth NMOS transistor at its gate and the sources of the second and third NMOS transistors at its drain.

2. The bus switch circuit of claim 1, wherein the bus switch circuit further comprises:

a first zener diode that is coupled between the sources of the first PMOS transistor and the third PMOS transistor; and

a second zener diode that is coupled between the sources of the second PMOS transistor and the third PMOS transistor.

3. The bus switch circuit of claim 1, wherein the bus switch circuit further comprises:

an inverter that is coupled to the gate of the first NMOS transistor; and

a sixth NMOS transistor that is coupled to the sources of the second and third NMOS transistors at its drain and the inverter at its gate.

4. The bus switch circuit of claim 1, wherein the bus switch circuit of claim 1 further comprises a fourth PMOS transistor that is coupled to the first terminal at its source, the second terminal at its drain, and the sources of the first and second PMOS transistors at its gate.

5. A bus switch circuit comprising:

a first terminal;

a second terminal;

a first NMOS transistor that is coupled to the first terminal at its source and the second terminal at its drain;

a second NMOS transistor that is coupled to the first terminal at its drain;

a third NMOS transistor that is coupled to the second terminal at its drain;

an inverter that is coupled to the gate of the first NMOS transistor; and

a fourth NMOS transistor that is coupled to the sources of the second and third NMOS transistors at its drain and the inverter at its gate;

a first PMOS transistor that is coupled to the first terminal at its drain;

a second PMOS transistor that is coupled to the second terminal at its drain;

a first zener diode that is coupled to the source of the first PMOS transistor;

a second zener diode that is coupled to the source of the second PMOS transistor;

a third PMOS transistor that is coupled to first and second zener diodes at its source;

a fifth NMOS transistor that is coupled to the gate of the third PMOS transistor at its gate;

a sixth NMOS transistor that is coupled to the drains of the third PMOS transistor and the fourth NMOS transistor at its gate and the sources of the second and third NMOS transistors at its drain;

a fourth PMOS transistor that is coupled to the first terminal at its source, the second terminal at its drain, and the sources of the first and second PMOS transistors at its gate;

a fifth PMOS transistor that is coupled to the gate of the fourth PMOS transistor at its drain;

and

a seventh NMOS transistor that is coupled to the gate of the fourth PMOS transistor at its drain and the gate of the fifth PMOS transistor at its gate.