Electronic digital logic circuitry – Interface – Current driving
Reexamination Certificate
2007-05-08
2007-05-08
Le, Don (Department: 2819)
Electronic digital logic circuitry
Interface
Current driving
C326S081000, C326S068000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10977146
ABSTRACT:
Embodiments of the invention include apparatus with a level-up shifter including a comparator having a pair of cross coupled PFETs with sources coupled to an I/O power supply and gates coupled to each other's drain, and a differential pair of NFETs with sources coupled to ground and gates respectively coupled to a data input and an inverted data input; and first and second pull-up PFETs have sources coupled to a pull-up voltage and drains respectively coupled between the differential pair of NFETs and the pair of cross coupled PFETs. The cross coupled PFETs and differential pair of NFETs perform level translation of low swing logic levels at the data input to high swing logic levels on a drain of one of the cross-coupled PFETs, while first and second pull-up PFETs speed the level translation in response to the data input and the inverted data input.
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Le Don
Reynolds Derek J.
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