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Message started by sapphire on Jan 20^th, 2009, 12:57pm

Title: how this charge pump works?
Post by sapphire on Jan 20^th, 2009, 12:57pm

This is so called dickinson charge pump. Anyone knows how this circuit works or there is any weblink regarding this? Thanks

Title: Re: how this charge pump works?
Post by Andrew Beckett on Jan 20^th, 2009, 3:53pm

Did you try google? I found several good references, even if you give the name as dickinson instead of Dickson (which is what it should be called). Just searching with "dickinson charge pump" or "dickson charge pump" gives:

http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~kphang/ece1371/chargepumps.pdf
http://www.edacafe.com/books/McGraw_Hill/Charge_Pump_Circuit_Design/45xch01.pdf

But there are plenty of others.

Andrew.