Patent 9236794 was granted and assigned to Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd. on January, 2016 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A charge pump circuit, and associated method and apparatuses, for providing a split-rail voltage supply, the circuit having a network of switches that is operable in a number of different states and a controller for operating the switches in a sequence of said states so as to generate positive and negative output voltages together spanning a voltage approximately equal to the input voltage and centered on the voltage at the common terminal.