Automatic control of buffer speed

Details Automatic control of buffer speed Automatic control of buffer speed

1993-01-13

1994-08-02

Westin, Edward P.

Electrical transmission or interconnection systems

Nonlinear reactor systems

Parametrons

307475, 3072968, H03K 1716, H03K 19092

Patent

active

053348850

ABSTRACT:
The number of active switching elements in a buffer is automatically varied to compensate for variations in the manufacturing process, operating temperature, and power supply voltage. For this purpose, a reference voltage which is proportional to the speed of a switching transistor is applied to an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter. The A/D converter may be implemented with a simple resistor divider and comparators, all of which can be made on-chip. The resistor dividers are chosen such that at worst-case slow conditions all the comparators have high outputs. As the process/temperature/voltage changes, the reference voltage also increases. This successively turns off sections of the switching transistor, thereby slowing down the response of the buffer. Since the control leads are digital, they are not susceptible to noise as they are routed around a chip full of noisy signals. The digital control signals may be latched, and the control circuitry powered down to zero for powersensitive applications.

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