Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Specific signal discriminating without subsequent control – By amplitude
Reexamination Certificate
2007-10-09
2007-10-09
Lam, Tuan T (Department: 2816)
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Specific signal discriminating without subsequent control
By amplitude
C327S055000, C327S057000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11113614
ABSTRACT:
Returning to FIG.2,sense circuit201represents the circuit that must sense the signaling on an interconnect. NMOS device202is always on so that there is a continuous path to ground whenever PMOS driver204is on. Since leakage power is an order of magnitude less than static and dynamic power it can be omitted for clarity, although it should be noted that dynamic power increases with respect to line length since the interconnect capacitance increases as line length increases. Static power is due to flow of static current across the two resistances shown in FIG.2,interconnect resistance206and the resistance of transistors102and104from FIG.1,represented by the resistance of equivalent NMOS transistor208of FIG.2.
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Burleson Wayne
Maheshwari Atul
Venkotroman Vishak
Lam Tuan T
Moore & Van Allen PLLC
Phillips Steven B.
University of Massachusetts
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