Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Specific identifiable device – circuit – or system – With specific source of supply or bias voltage
Patent
1994-12-20
1997-01-28
Callahan, Timothy P.
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Specific identifiable device, circuit, or system
With specific source of supply or bias voltage
327530, 327543, G05F 110
Patent
active
055981224
ABSTRACT:
An output driver circuit for an integrated circuit is disclosed, where the output driver drives an output terminal with a high logic level having a voltage limited from the power supply voltage of the integrated circuit. The limited voltage is provided by applying a limited output high voltage to an output buffer, such that the drive signal applied to the gate of the pull-up transistor in the output driver is limited by the limited output high voltage applied to the output buffer. A voltage reference and regulator circuit for generating the limited output high voltage is also disclosed, and is based on a current mirror. The sum of the current in the current mirror is controlled by a bias current source, which may be dynamically controlled within the operating cycle or programmed by way of fuses. An offset compensating current source adds current into the reference leg of the current mirror to eliminate the development of an offset voltage in the current mirror, and the limited output high voltage is shifted by the threshold voltage of the pull-up drive transistor by way of a threshold shift circuit.
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Anderson Rodney M.
Callahan Timothy P.
Galanthay Theodore E.
Larson Renee M.
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics Inc.
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