18818430. POWER MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH BLEED CIRCUIT CONTROL (Lodestar Licensing Group LLC)
POWER MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH BLEED CIRCUIT CONTROL
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Matthew David Rowley of Boise ID (US)
POWER MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH BLEED CIRCUIT CONTROL
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18818430 titled 'POWER MANAGEMENT INTEGRATED CIRCUIT WITH BLEED CIRCUIT CONTROL
Original Abstract Submitted
A memory system having a non-volatile memory and a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) that has a voltage regulator to apply a voltage on the non-volatile memory during normal operations. During a shutdown process, the PMIC has a bleeder that is activated to reduce the voltage applied on the non-volatile memory to a level that is below a programmable threshold, before allowing the memory system to restart again. During the bleeding operation, a comparator of the PMIC compares the voltage applied to the non-volatile memory and the threshold to determine whether the shutdown process can be terminated for a restart.