PATENTS and PUBLICATIONS

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Title Systems and Methods for High Speed Power Factor Correction BOOST-BUCK POWER FACTOR CORRECTION Method for Generating an Internal Compensation Network of a Pole and Two Zeros to Compensate High Frequency Voltage Mode Switching Regulators Method for Reducing Body Diode Conduction in NMOS Synchronous Rectifiers Power factor correction by measurement and removal of overtones Reverse Current Comparator Circuit and Method for Switching Regulators Reverse Current Comparator for Switching Regulators Error amplifier circuit AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT FOR ADDING A LAPLACE TRANSFORM ZERO IN A LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT ADDING A LAPLACE TRANSFORM ZERO TO LINEAR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT FOR FREQUENCY STABILITY

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8,542,503 Systems and methods for high speed power factor correction 8,482,270 Reverse current comparator for switching regulators 8,354,831 Reverse current comparator circuit and method for switching regulators 8,018,744 Power factor correction by measurement and removal of overtones 7,719,862 6,809,560 6,737,841 6,724,257 6,424,132 6,395,591 6,307,409 6,304,067 6,005,378 6,002,244 5,929,615 5,889,393 5,877,534 5,867,014 5,677,205 5,654,574 5,596,265 5,559,424 5,545,909 5,506,496 5,164,802 4,820,968 4,795,716 Power factor correction by measurement and removal of overtones Load sensing circuit for a power MOSFET switch Amplifier circuit for adding a laplace transform zero in a linear integrated circuit Error amplifier circuit Adding a laplace transform zero to a linear integrated circuit for frequency stability Selective substrate implant process for decoupling analog and digital grounds Gate driver circuit for high and low side switches with primary and secondary shoot-through protection Adding a laplace transform zero to a linear integrated circuit for frequency stability Compact low dropout voltage regulator using enhancement and depletion mode MOS transistors Temperature monitoring circuit with thermal hysteresis Step-up/step-down voltage regulator using an MOS synchronous rectifier Voltage regulator having error and transconductance amplifiers to define multiple poles Method of forming electrostatic discharge protection device for integrated circuit Current sense circuit having multiple pilot and reference transistors Method for forming electrostatic discharge protection device for integrated circuit Electrostatic discharge protection device for integrated circuit Band gap voltage compensation circuit Voltage regulator having improved stability Electrostatic discharge protection device for integrated circuit Output control circuit for a voltage regulator Power VDMOSFET with schottky on lightly doped drain of lateral driver FET Compensated current sensing circuit Method of making a power IC structure with enhancement and/or CMOS logic

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4,725,912 4,701,883 4,701,718 4,605,891 4,553,084 4,453,095 4,380,706 4,319,181 4,231,332

Power MOS loss of ground protection ECL/CMOS memory cell with separate read and write bit lines CMOS high gain amplifier utilizing positive feedback Safe operating area circuit and method for an output switching device Current sensing circuit ECL MOS Buffer circuits Voltage reference circuit Solid state current sensing circuit Spark and dwell ignition control system using digital circuitry

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS A solid state current sense for high current epi base power transistors , Wrathall, R.S.; Robb, S.P.; Electron Devices Meeting, 1982 International Volume: 28 Publication Year: 1982 , Page(s): 92 - 95 Integrated circuits for the control of high power Wrathall, R.S.; Tam, D.; Terry, L.; Robb, S.P.; Electron Devices Meeting, 1983 International Volume: 29 Publication Year: 1983 , Page(s): 408 - 411 A 5V 10A CMOS/PNP linear regulator Wrathall, R.; Solid-State Circuits Conference. Digest of Technical Papers. 1985 IEEE International Volume: XXVIII Publication Year: 1985 , Page(s): 144 - 145 Charge controlled 80 volt lateral DMOSFET with very low specific on-resistance designed for an integrated power process Wrathall, R.S.; Baliga, B.J.; Shenai, K.; Hennesey, W.; Chow, T.P.; Electron Devices Meeting, 1990. IEDM '90. Technical Digest., International Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/IEDM.1990.237082 Publication Year: 1990 , Page(s): 954 - 957 The design of an automotive low drop out regulator IC utilizing a depletion mode high voltage DMOS pass element Wrathall, R.; Franck, S.; Power Electronics in Transportation, 1994. [Proceedings] Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/PET.1994.572351 Publication Year: 1994 , Page(s): 17 - 22 A study of AC and switchmode coupling of currents to airbag squib ignitors Wrathall, R.S.; Power Electronics in Transportation, 1996. IEEE Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/PET.1996.565918 Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 111 - 116 Modeling the thermal transients in automotive power ICs Shekar, M.S.; Hartular, A.; Wrathall, B.; Williams, R.K.; Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs, 1996. ISPSD '96 Proceedings., 8th International Symposium on Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ISPSD.1996.509486 Publication Year: 1996 , Page(s): 223 - 226