Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Signal converting – shaping – or generating – Particular stable state circuit
Patent
1999-05-20
2000-11-07
Lam, Tuan T.
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Signal converting, shaping, or generating
Particular stable state circuit
327566, 326 41, 257204, H01L 2710
Patent
active
061442410
ABSTRACT:
A gate-array cell uses smaller and larger transistors. Four larger transistors are provided: two n-channel and two p-channel. A small p-channel transistor is placed between the contact tabs of the polysilicon lines of the two larger p-channel transistors, and between the p-channel transistors and a N-well tap. A small n-channel transistor is similarly placed between the contact tabs of polysilicon lines of the two larger n-channel transistors, and between the n-channel transistors and a P-well tap. The cell is slightly expanded in height to accommodate the two smaller transistors. The smaller transistors enable a reduction in the number of transistors required for latches and flip-flops. The smaller transistors allow a feedback inverter to directly connect to an input, since the input can easily over-power the feedback current. This is not possible for standard gate array cells having only one transistor size. Transmission gates are eliminated when direct feedback is feasible. Thus, the smaller transistors enable a reduction in transistor count as well as being smaller in size. Clear and set are provided by larger pull-down or pull-up transistors rather than NAND gates, since the larger pull-down and pull-up transistors can easily over-power the feedback inverters.
REFERENCES:
patent: 6031982 (2000-02-01), Truong et al.
patent: 6057568 (2000-05-01), Kumagai
patent: 6081004 (2000-06-01), Wong et al.
Auvinen Stuart T.
Lam Tuan T.
Pericom Semiconductor Corp.
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