Low current optional inverter

Details Low current optional inverter Low current optional inverter

1994-03-01

1995-03-21

Hudspeth, David R.

Electronic digital logic circuitry

Multifunctional or programmable

Array

326121, H03R 19094

Patent

active

053999240

ABSTRACT:
A low power optional inverter uses P-channel and N-channel transistors in series as in a conventional CMOS inverter, but in one embodiment connects complementary signals to the sources of the P-channel and N-channel transistors such that when the complementary signals are switched the circuit switches between an inverting and a non-inverting buffer. In some embodiments P-channel and/or N-channel pass transistors are used in the non-inverting mode to avoid the threshold voltage drop associated with a CMOS non-inverting buffer. In another embodiment, in the noninverting mode, at least one bypass transistor is turned on and power is not supplied to the inverter. In yet another embodiment, in the inverting mode a CMOS inverter is powered with conventional voltages and in the noninverting mode the CMOS inverter is disabled and a bypass transistor connects input to output.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4567385 (1986-01-01), Falater et al.
patent: 5331226 (1994-07-01), Goetting

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