Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Specific identifiable device – circuit – or system – With specific source of supply or bias voltage
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-01
2008-04-01
Zweizig, Jeffrey (Department: 2816)
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Specific identifiable device, circuit, or system
With specific source of supply or bias voltage
Reexamination Certificate
active
11625711
ABSTRACT:
An output driver circuit and current control technique to facilitate high-speed buses with low noise is used to interface with high-speed dynamic RAMs (DRAMs). The architecture includes the following components: an input isolation block (120), an analog voltage divider (104), an input comparator (125), a sampling latch (130), a current control counter (115), and a bitwise output driver (output driver A107and output driver B111).
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Chan Andy Peng-Pui
Ching Michael Tak-Kei
Dillon, legal representative Nancy David
Garrett, Jr. Billy Wayne
Griffin Matthew M.
Rambus Inc.
Vierra Magen Marcus & DeNiro LLP
Zweizig Jeffrey
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