Ground bounce isolation and high speed output circuit

Details Ground bounce isolation and high speed output circuit Ground bounce isolation and high speed output circuit

1990-04-20

1992-02-18

Miller, Stanley D.

Electrical transmission or interconnection systems

Nonlinear reactor systems

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307475, 307542, 307446, H03K 19003, H03K 1716

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active

050897217

ABSTRACT:
An output buffer circuit advantageously uses a simple integrated circuit package including two separate ground leads for connection to an externally supplied ground voltage. The relatively large pull down current which passes through the pull down transistor of one or more output buffers are fed through a first ground lead of the lead frame to the external ground and the remaining circuitry is connected to the external ground through the second ground lead of the lead frame. The transients in the pull down current will cause ground bounce which affects the pull down transistor only, and not the remaining components of the output buffer. In this manner, base drive to the output pull down transistor is not decreased due to ground bounce, and the high to low transition of the output voltage is not degraded by the presence of ground bounce. In an alternative embodiment, the amount of ground bounce is controlled to provide a desired characteristic of the output transition.

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