ECL driver with adjustable rise and fall times, and method there

Details ECL driver with adjustable rise and fall times, and method there ECL driver with adjustable rise and fall times, and method there

1992-08-03

1994-06-14

Westin, Edward P.

Electrical transmission or interconnection systems

Nonlinear reactor systems

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307475, 307443, H03K 1920, H03K 190175

Patent

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053213203

ABSTRACT:
An ECL driver, such as an ECL cut-off driver, is provided with settable output rise time and settable output fall time, in order to reduce noise at the output of the driver while limiting the delay resulting from such noise reduction. A method is also provided for so controlling an ECL driver. The driver includes a current switch and a current source. The current switch includes a NOR side including one or more transistors, and an OR side including one or more transistors. The input to the NOR side can be buffered with an input emitter follower, and the output from the current switch can be buffered with an output emitter follower. A capacitance is connected across the collector(s) and emitter(s) of the NOR side transistor(s) of the current switch, and a capacitance is connected at one electrode both to the collector(s) of the OR side transistor(s) and to the base(s) of the output emitter follower transistor(s). In one embodiment, the remaining side of the other capacitance is connected to ground and to the collector(s) of the output emitter follower transistor(s). In another embodiment, the other side of the other capacitance is connected to the collector(s) of the NOR side transistor(s). In still another embodiment, the other side of the other capacitance is connected to the emitter(s) of the OR side transistor(s), and to the current source.

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