Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Signal converting – shaping – or generating – Having specific delay in producing output waveform
Patent
1997-12-23
2000-07-11
Tran, Toan
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Signal converting, shaping, or generating
Having specific delay in producing output waveform
327277, H03H 1126
Patent
active
060878746
ABSTRACT:
A delay circuit for delaying high-speed logic signals has a continuously-variable delay which is a linear function of a control current. The resulting delay time may be set as short as a single logic gate delay. The CMOS delay circuit comprises delay means having as its output an internal signal characterized by an internal signal swing, coupled to amplifier means whose output is the delayed logic signal, characterized by a settling time. The amplifier means contributes minimal delay. The swing of the internal signal of the delay circuit is controlled by differential negative feedback to be just sufficient to drive the next stage, while the delay circuit's settling time is controlled by capacitively coupled positive feedback to be as short as the delay itself. The differential negative feedback is provided by four MOS devices.
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Nortel Networks Corporation
Tra Quan
Tran Toan
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