Patents Represented by Attorney William B. Hiller
  • Patent number: 5182469
    Abstract: An integrated circuit having a first group of semiconductor components which use potentials which are positive with respect to the substrate and a second group of components which use potentials which are negative with respect to the substrate. A negative voltage regulator circuit suitable for use in telephone circuits is described in which the regulated output is produced at the substrate so that noise can be prevented from being capacitatively coupled from the substrate to the input stages of amplifiers in the same integrated circuit. The exemplary circuit is produced by the so-called BIDFET process and use both bipolar and field effect transistors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1993
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Joseph D. Farley, Frank Fattori