Driver-receiver pair for low noise digital signaling

Details Driver-receiver pair for low noise digital signaling Driver-receiver pair for low noise digital signaling

1989-04-07

1991-01-22

Miller, Stanley D.

Electrical transmission or interconnection systems

Nonlinear reactor systems

Parametrons

307475, 307443, 307555, H03K 19092, H03K 301

Patent

active

049873229

ABSTRACT:
A digital signalling circuit employs a spaced apart driver and receiver pair in which the signal current originates at the receiver and is constant in time. The receiver chip includes a constant current source connected to the power supply plane and one termination of a signal line, a termination resistor connected across the signal line termination to the ground plane, and a sense amplifier connected to the signal line termination for sensing the voltage level or the signal line. The driver chip comprises a single switching transistor connected across the opposite end of the signal line to the ground plane, and is not directly coupled to the power supply plane. When the driver switching transistor is on, the signal line is grounded and the termination resistor in the receiver is effectively shorted out. When the driver switching transistor is turned off, the signal source current at the receiver charges up the signal line and develops a voltage across the termination resistor. Since a constant current source is used, any inductance in the circuit has no effect on the power supply voltage. Power supply bypass capacitors are effectively removed from the circuit reducing signal propagation times.

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patent: 4591742 (1986-05-01), Morito
patent: 4691128 (1987-09-01), Fruhauf
patent: 4843262 (1989-06-01), Abe

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