Controllable bus terminator

Details Controllable bus terminator Controllable bus terminator

1994-07-11

1996-05-28

Westin, Edward P.

Electronic digital logic circuitry

Signal sensitivity or transmission integrity

Bus or line termination

327321, H03K 1716, H03K 301

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055215289

ABSTRACT:
A controllable bus terminator for providing a switchable termination on a bus having a plurality of conductors, wherein the controllable bus terminator includes a voltage regulator, a plurality of termination networks, each having a first terminal and a second terminal wherein the second terminal of each of the termination networks provides an output terminal of the bus terminator. The bus terminator further includes a plurality of electrically controllable switches, each of the switches having a first port coupled to the voltage regulator and a second port coupled to the first terminal of a corresponding one of the termination networks wherein each of the switches couples the corresponding termination network to the voltage regulator when the corresponding switch is in a first state and wherein each of the switches disconnects the corresponding termination network from the voltage regulator when the corresponding switch is in a second state.

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