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7622972 System and apparatus for generating ideal rise and fall time  
A system for generating an ideal rise or fall time includes: a first current source, for providing a first current; an adjustable capacitive component, coupled to the first current source, for...
7598785 Apparatus and method for adjusting slew rate in semiconductor memory device  
A slew-rate adjusting apparatus for use in a semiconductor memory device includes: a slew-rate modulation signal generator for generating a slew-rate modulation signal according to the number of...
7598784 System and method for controlling signal transitions  
In accordance with the present disclosure, an electronic circuit of an integrated circuit is configured to receive an input signal that has a falling transition and a rising transition and provide...
7595674 Universal serial bus (USB) driver circuit, system, and method  
A driver circuit, system, and method is provided. The driver circuit includes a plurality of delay cells or circuits, each comprising a set of flip-flop circuits coupled in series to produce a...
7589554 I/O interface circuit of intergrated circuit  
A plurality of transistor pairs of Pch and Nch transistors are connected in series between VDD and GND. An I/O terminal is connected to each connection point of the transistor pairs. Two transistor...
7583460 Edge controlled fast data pattern generator  
Fast data patterns with desired edge positions are provided. A pattern generator (PG) circuit 10 stores and provides data patterns and respective position control data. A delay circuit 16 ...
7576581 Circuit and method for correcting duty cycle  
A circuit for correcting a duty cycle includes a duty ratio digital conversion block configured to output duty ratio information of an input clock signal as plural-bit digital signals, a duty ratio...
7567105 High speed controller area network receiver having improved EMI immunity  
A CAN receiver architecture design that provides better immunity against EMI interference than conventional designs is disclosed herein. This CAN receiver includes a voltage divider network...
7557603 Method and apparatus for output driver calibration, and memory devices and system embodying same  
A method, system, and output driver calibration circuit determine calibration values for configuring adjustable impedance output drivers. The calibration circuit includes a pull-up calibration...
7554385 Charge pump circuit and electric appliance therewith  
In a charge pump circuit, the slew rate at which a clock signal is fed to charge transfer transistors is changed according to the output voltage. This configuration helps alleviate rush currents at...
7550993 Glitch reduced compensated circuits and methods for using such  
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for glitch reduced circuits. As one example, a glitch reduced, variable width driver circuit is disclosed. Such circuits...
7548086 Impedance control circuit in semiconductor device and impedance control method  
An impedance control circuit includes an impedance detector, an output driver and an impedance controller. The impedance detector generates a first output value to a detection pad connected between...
7545175 Slew rate controlled digital output buffer without resistors  
An output buffer for an IC includes a PMOS transistor having a source coupled to an operating voltage, and an NMOS transistor serially coupled between a drain of the PMOS transistor and a...
7538586 Transmitter for a controlled-shape switched signal on a communication line  
The transmitter comprises a signal generator including a capacitor producing the switched signal to be applied to the line. The capacitor is charged by a charging current in response to an input...
7521975 Output buffer with slew rate control utilizing an inverse process dependent current reference  
An output driver circuit provides more constant slew rates in the presence of process, voltage, or temperature variations that affect performance. An open ended (no feedback) solution is utilized...
7518424 Slew rate controlled output circuit  
An output circuit comprises an input node, an output node, a first output transistor, a second output transistor, a first slew rate control circuit, and a second slew rate control circuit. The...
7518335 Method and apparatus for PWM control of voltage source inverter to minimize current sampling errors in electric drives  
A method for controlling an alternating current (AC) motor includes choosing a pulse sequence based on a ripple current in the AC motor at a sampling instant; and providing a voltage to the AC...
7514963 Semiconductor integrated circuit device  
When the operation frequency is high, in order to cause the rate of change of outputs from an output terminal (OUT) to be abrupt, a selection control signal is caused to be in a low state, thereby...
7498853 Skew-reducing signal line sub-driver circuits, methods and systems  
Circuits, methods and systems are provided to reduce skew between a first digital signal that is transmitted by a first driver circuit over a first signal line, and a second digital signal that is...
7498844 Output driver for dynamic random access memory  
An output driver includes a pre-pull up drive unit configured to perform a pre-pull up drive operation; a pre-pull down drive unit configured to perform a pre-pull down drive operation; a drive...
7482845 Output buffer circuit  
Provided is an output buffer circuit having a slew rate increasing part configured with a switching element. The output buffer circuit can obtain an output voltage having a high slew rate even...
7477081 Pre-driver circuit and data output circuit using the same  
Provided is a pre-driver circuit having a pull-up unit for receiving a data signal, as an input, to output a logical High; a pull-down unit for receiving the data signal, as an input, to output a...
7474135 Circuit for differential signals  
A method and integrated circuit for the transmission of differential signals with a signal and a complementary signal is disclosed. For trimming the edge steepness of the signal with that of the...
7466176 Voltage regulator for microelectronic devices using dual edge pulse width modulated control signal  
A voltage regulator is described for microelectronic devices using dual edge pulse width modulated control signal. In one example a first digital duty cycle value is received from a voltage...
7449936 Open-loop slew-rate controlled output driver  
A slew-rate controlled output driver for use in a semiconductor device includes a PVT variation detection unit having a delay line for receiving a reference clock in order to detect a delay amount...
7449913 Pre-driver having slew-rate and crowbar-current controls for a CMOS output buffer  
An output buffer having slew-rate control and crossbar current control includes a pull-up PMOS transistor, a pull-down NMOS transistor, a pull-up network coupled to the gate of the pull-up PMOS...
7446576 Output driver with slew rate control  
A circuit and method for controlling a slew rate of an output buffer. A pre-driver is provided that drives an input of an output pad driver of the output buffer. An output slew rate of the...
7425849 Low noise output buffer capable of operating at high speeds  
Output buffers which operate at high speeds require delicate handling of the noise on the supply lines. This necessitates control be exercised over current slew rate not only on the rising edge of...
7424046 Spread spectrum clock signal generation system and method  
A system and method for generating a clock signal having spread spectrum modulation. The method involves generating a clock signal by generating edge positions for edges of the clock signal from a...
7417473 Signal generator including current control element and signal forming element for achieving low noise level and low switching loss  
A signal generator includes: a current control element for controlling a current flowing through an electric load; and signal forming means for outputting a control signal to the current control...
7394298 Stepwise drivers for DC/DC converters  
Stepwise drivers for DC/DC converters are described herein. In one embodiment, a stepwise driver is provided to charge or discharge a gate capacitance of a power switch of a DC/DC converter. In a...
7378878 Driver circuit having programmable slew rate  
The programmable slew rate driver uses separate and programmably selectable resistors for time constants for on and off transitions on the NMOS and PMOS output transistors. By proper setting of...
7365585 Apparatus and method for charge pump slew rate control  
An apparatus and method for improving memory cell reliability is disclosed. The slew rate is reduced in an applied voltage signal used to program a memory cell when Fowler-Nordheim (FN) tunneling...
7365584 Slew-rate control apparatus and methods for a power transistor to reduce voltage transients during inductive flyback  
Apparatus and methods that reduce the amount of conducted/radiated emissions from a power switch ( 200 ) when a transistor ( 210 ) is switched OFF are disclosed. In addition, apparatus and methods...
7362147 Integrated circuit  
An integrated circuit is disclosed that includes a MOS output stage transistor, a gate terminal for applying a drive signal, which controls the turning on and off of the output stage transistor, a...
7355453 Techniques for trimming drive current in output drivers  
Techniques are provided for trimming drive current in output drivers to compensate for process variations, model inaccuracies, and/or an off-target process. The actual output drive current is...
7348812 Multiphased triangular wave oscillating circuit and switching regulator using it  
To oscillate and output multiphased triangular waves with a designed waveform shape, wave crest value, and phase relationship. This multiphased triangular wave oscillating circuit has two...
RE40168 Low power circuit with proper slew rate by automatic adjustment of bias current  
An evaluation circuit 16 repeats processing in which an output VD thereof is reset, there is obtained repeatedly given times a difference between sampled output voltages Vo of a replica circuit ...
7345516 Apparatus and method for adjusting slew rate in semiconductor memory device  
A slew-rate adjusting apparatus for use in a semiconductor memory device includes: a slew-rate modulation signal generator for generating a slew-rate modulation signal according to the number of...
7339409 Slew rate controlled output driver for use in semiconductor device  
An output driver for use in a semiconductor is capable of maintaining its slew rate constantly regardless of PVT(Process/Voltage/Temperature) variation. The output driver includes a pre-driving...
7312646 Method and apparatus for controlling switching transients  
An apparatus for controlling switching transients including a bus interface unit and a waveform shaper coupled to the bus interface unit and a peripheral device. The bus interface unit generates a...
7312637 Enhanced timing margin memory interface  
The present invention is an electronic circuit that significantly enhances timing margin in high-speed, digital memory modules. The circuit is implemented is applicable to all switching waveforms...
7312626 CMOS circuits with reduced crowbar current  
Various circuit embodiments comprise an input node to receive an input signal for a CMOS transistor stack, a first output node to deliver the input signal to a PMOS pull-up transistor of the CMOS...
7295054 Buffer capable of controlling slew rate in drive IC  
The present invention relates generally to a buffer of a drive Integrated Circuit (IC) and, more particularly, to a buffer of a drive IC for driving a spatial light modulator that can meet a...
7292073 Transmission line driver circuit  
A transmission line driver circuit that operates at a first voltage level is fabricated using devices that operate at a second, lower voltage level. The driver circuit includes a ramp generator...
7288958 Slew rate calibrating circuit and slew rate calibrating method  
A slew rate calibrating circuit and a slew rate calibrating method are provided which are capable of adjusting, with high accuracy, a slew rate of a signal to be output to a transmission path. A...
7282968 Data output driver and semiconductor memory device having the same  
A data output driver and a semiconductor memory device having the same are disclosed. This data output driver includes: a rising transition slope adjuster including a plurality of first delay units...
7274241 Global closed loop control system with DV/DT control and EMI/switching loss reduction  
A gate driver for a power switch, comprising a gate drive circuit coupled to the gate of the power switch for at least one of turning on and turning off the power switch; a gate voltage control...
7259603 Switch mode power converter  
A switch mode power converter is provided which includes a switching cell with a supply input, an output and a control input. A summing comparator has first and second differential input pairs and...
7250802 Clock generator having a 50% duty-cycle  
A method and apparatus for generating a fifty percent duty cycle clock from a reference clock. The method and apparatus includes an edge generator, a controllable delay module, a duty cycle control...