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7443194 I/O driver for integrated circuit with output impedance control  
An I/O driver has v/i characteristic control for maintaining a substantially flat output impedance response using a transmission gate configuration at an I/O output pad. The configuration includes...
7443217 Circuit and method to balance delays through true and complement phases of differential and complementary drivers  
A circuit for balancing delays through true and complement phases of complementary drivers includes: a first driver; a second driver; a first delay device coupled to an input of the first driver...
7443212 Semiconductor integrated circuit controlling output impedance and slew rate  
The present invention provides a semiconductor integrated circuit that can perform impedance control and slew rate control independently of each other and simplify the structure of a control...
7443211 Transmitter and transmission circuit  
Transmitter and transmission circuit. For realizing a differential transmitter, a switch circuit is connected between two load transistors of two complementary MOS pairs. The switch circuit can...
7439761 Apparatus and method for controlling a driver strength  
Method of controlling a driver strength and a termination impedance of a signal line of an interface, wherein the driver sends an output signal as an alternating voltage with a frequency, wherein...
7436214 Pseudo differential current mode receiver  
A pseudo differential current mode receiver includes a regulated cascode buffer for buffering a received data current to generate a buffered data current with cascode-reduced input impedance and...
7432747 Gate driving circuit  
The present invention relates to a gate driving circuit, comprising a driver control circuit, a voltage following bias circuit, a pull up circuit and a MOS transistor. The driver control circuit...
7432732 Integrated circuit device including interface circuit and electronic apparatus  
An integrated circuit device, includes: an input pad region including a differential signal input region receiving a pair of differential signals, a first power supply input region and a second...
7429972 High slew-rate amplifier circuit for TFT-LCD system  
A high slew rate amplifying circuit, for a TFT-type of LCD system, includes: an operational amplifier; a pull-up transistor connected to the output of the operational amplifier; a pull-down...
7429876 Differential signal transmission system  
A differential signal transmission system includes m different voltage/current supplies, n transmission end, and a controller. The controller includes m×n switches. Each of the switches is coupled...
7427878 Low-voltage differential signal driver for high-speed digital transmission  
A low-voltage differential signal (LVDS) driver includes at least two programmable fingers operable to drive a signal and at least two pre-drivers. Each pre-driver is associated with one or more of...
7426239 Method and transmission apparatus for transmitting a bivalent signal  
A method and an apparatus for transmitting information contained in a transmission signal via at least one channel includes a number of processing steps at the transmitter end. At least one pulse...
7425846 Gate driving device and flat display device employing such a gate driving device  
A flat display device may include a plurality of electrodes arranged in one direction, a first transistor coupled between the plurality of electrodes and a first power source for supplying a first...
7417462 Variable external interface circuitry on programmable logic device integrated circuits  
A programmable logic device (“PLD”) includes circuitry for optionally and variably modifying characteristics of an input signal in any of several respects. Examples of such modifications...
7417460 Multi-standard transmitter  
A multi-standard transmitter includes a differential stage that includes a current generator transistor; first and second transistors connected between a first node and the generator transistor and...
7417461 Signal output circuit  
An LVDS output circuit steadily supplying an output current of magnitude I includes a current source 101 outputting a current of 2I, current sources 102, 103, 106, 107 allowing a current of ΔI...
7417451 Leakage power management with NDR isolation devices  
A method and system for minimizing sub-threshold leakage in a logic block is disclosed. An NDR isolation device is coupled between the logic block and ground to form a virtual ground node. To put...
7417464 Bi-directional signal transmission system  
A bi-directional signal transmission system including, a first bi-directional signal path having circuitry adapted to generate a logic high level on said first path, one or more first stations...
7417459 On-die offset reference circuit block  
A method and apparatus for an integrated circuit having a offset reference circuit block to receive an external voltage reference and output an offset reference voltage are described herein.
7411415 Bus termination scheme having concurrently powered-on transistors  
Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, systems and/or devices associated with a bus termination scheme are disclosed.
7411420 High-speed input signal receiver circuit  
An input integrating circuit and a differential amplifier circuit are provided in a receiver circuit which samples a pair of differential input signals, detects the levels of said pair of input...
7408385 Receiver circuit, differential signal receiver circuit, interface circuit, and electronic instrument  
A receiver circuit, which is connected with a partner transmitter circuit through a signal line and receives a signal based on current which flows through the signal line, includes a...
7408399 Active driving of normally on, normally off cascoded configuration devices through asymmetrical CMOS  
Disclosed is a method of controlling a High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) through a cascode circuit, the cascode circuit including first and second switches, a capacitor connected to a source...
7405594 Current mode driver with constant voltage swing  
A current mode driver generates a differential output signal that has a constant voltage swing between a lower voltage level and an upper voltage level. A feedback module determines an intermediate...
7405592 Integrated circuit capable of minimizing switch transitions  
A method according to one embodiment may include switching, by an integrated circuit, a plurality of switches to generate at least one output signal having a first amplitude and a second amplitude....
7405593 Systems and methods for transmitting signals across integrated circuit chips  
Disclosed are on-chip global electrical signaling systems and methods employing differential current-mode sensing having reduced delay and energy dissipation compared to conventional inverter...
7403041 Techniques for enabling a 10BT active output impedance line driver using a low power supply  
A line driver for generating 10 BT signals is disclosed. Digital symbols to be transmitted via a 10 BT Ethernet line are converted by a digital-to-analog converter into a corresponding analog...
7403040 Reference voltage generators for reducing and/or eliminating termination mismatch  
A system including a plurality of transmission lines, a transmitter outputting respective signals to each of the plurality of transmission lines, a receiver receiving each of the plurality of...
7403047 System and method for power-on control of input/output drivers  
A system and method for controlling an input/output driver. The system includes a control system configured to receive a first supply voltage and a second supply voltage and generate a control...
7400163 Dead time control circuit capable of adjusting temperature characteristics of dead time  
In a dead time control circuit, a delay circuit is connected to an input terminal and adapted to delay signals therethrough by a delay time corresponding to a dead time. A logic circuit has a first...
7400170 Differential current-mode driver with high common-mode range and controlled edge rates  
A differential current-mode driver that meets the IEEE 1394 standard employs a wide output range in common-mode voltage, minimizes timing skew over this wide range, and has well-controlled...
7397284 Bootstrapped circuit  
A bootstrapping circuit capable of sampling input signals beyond a supply voltage is disclosed. In one embodiment, the bootstrapped circuit is implemented having a reduced area and/or power...
7394290 Semiconductor integrated circuit  
A semiconductor integrated circuit with low power consumption is provided. In one embodiment, the semiconductor integrated circuit includes a logic circuit portion that is connected between a first...
7394286 Field programmable gate array long line routing network  
A multi-directional routing repeater has a plurality of buffers, each of the plurality of buffers has an input and an output. The output of each of the plurality of buffers is connected to a...
7391231 Switch selectable terminator for differential and pseudo-differential signaling  
An active terminator is configured with switches to select between terminating two lines for transmitting one differential signal pair or two single ended signals terminated in a...
7388404 Driver circuit that limits the voltage of a wave front launched onto a transmission line  
A driver circuit limits the magnitude of the initial wave front launched onto a transmission line to a voltage that is approximately one-half of the supply voltage. Thus, immediately after the...
7382160 Differential output circuit with reduced differential output variation  
In a differential output circuit, a second amplifier has a positive terminal connected to a second fixed potential and a negative terminal to a fifth switch at a first terminal. First and second...
7382151 Method for reducing cross-talk induced source synchronous bus clock jitter  
A first clock signal of frequency F is used to couple data to an off-chip driver (OCD) using a master/slave flip flop (FF), wherein the master latch is clocked with the first clock signal and the...
7378875 Compensation circuits for unequal input/output common mode voltages  
A circuit apparatus having compensation circuits for unequal input/output common mode voltages is presented. The apparatus includes a circuit unit, a feedback path and a current source. The circuit...
7378876 Complementary output inverter  
A complementary output driver includes a driver input that receives an input signal which alternates between a first state and a second state. A first inverter has a first input and a first output....
7378877 Output buffer circuit  
An output buffer with a pre-emphasis function to deliver a logic signal to a transmission line as a distributed constant circuit includes a first buffer to receive a first signal assigning a...
7372291 Circuits having precision voltage clamping levels and method  
A slew rate control circuit includes a receiver for receiving input signals and an output generator for generating output signals based on the input signals. The slew rate control circuit also...
7372302 High speed, out-of-band differential pin driver  
A driver block for a differential pin driver that supports out-of-band signaling. The driver block includes a main enable switch that is controlled by a high speed driver inhibit (DINH) signal. The...
7368949 Output driver and output driving method for enhancing initial output data using timing  
An output driver for enhancing initial output data using timing includes a selection signal generation unit for generating a selection signal, a reference data generation unit for generating...
7365571 Input buffer with wide input voltage range  
The input buffer is driven by a data input/output supply voltage. The input buffer generates an output signal from an input signal that swings between the data input/output supply voltage and a...
7365572 Multipath input buffer circuits  
Provided is a multi-path input buffer circuit, which passes a signal input to a semiconductor device through different paths in consideration of the voltage level of the input signal. The...
7365570 Pseudo-differential output driver with high immunity to noise and jitter  
Circuits and methods are provided for transmitting a pseudo-differential output signal with relatively high immunity to noise and jitter. The output driver of the invention receives two...
7362146 Large supply range differential line driver  
A differential transmission line driver with supplemental current sources that overcome switching anomalies and EMU issues when the logic state of the driver is switching. During a logic...
7358770 Driver circuit  
A circuit includes a first driver, a second driver, and a transformer coupled to the first and second driver. In operation, the first driver receives a first signal from a first input port, the...
7358780 Low voltage differential signal driver with high power supply rejection ration  
A LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signal) driver with a high PSRR (Power Supply Rejection Ration) includes a first current source for providing a working current, a switch unit for receiving the...