Electronic digital logic circuitry – Signal sensitivity or transmission integrity – Output switching noise reduction
Patent
1995-07-03
1997-11-04
Westin, Edward P.
Electronic digital logic circuitry
Signal sensitivity or transmission integrity
Output switching noise reduction
326 83, H03K 190948, H03K 1716
Patent
active
056844107
ABSTRACT:
An output buffer circuit for preconditioning an output signal at an output node so as to provide a higher speed of operation and less ground bounce noise includes an output buffer stage, a precondition feedback circuit, an output predriver, an output tristate control circuit, and an output state retention circuit. The output pre-driver with input equalization, which is also part of precondition control, combined with the output buffer stage designed with its threshold voltage matching component's input and output threshold voltage such that the output feedback, which bring the output and the input nodes of the output buffer stage together, will drive the output level to the threshold point enabled by the precondition signals before the data input signals arrive. The output buffer noise can be reduced by slowly driving output level to the output threshold point about three to four nanoseconds earlier than the data input signals arrive. The output state retention circuit is provided to help in minimizing the output glitch which occurs during output high-to-high or output low-to-low transition.
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Chin Davis
Driscoll Benjamin D.
Westin Edward P.
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