Voltage translator circuit

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1997-02-07

1999-09-14

Wells, Kenneth B.

Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and

Signal converting, shaping, or generating

Amplitude control

327108, 327437, 326 63, 326 81, 326 83, H03L 500

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059528656

ABSTRACT:
The circuit is for translating a switching signal disposed between ground level and Vdd to a translated switching signal disposed between first and second voltages Vhsrc and Vhstrap. The circuit includes a bistable circuit formed by two branches which include two nMOS transistors the sources of which are connected to ground and are controlled, respectively, by a switching-on signal and by a switching-off signal derived from the switching signal by means of a buffer and an inverter, respectively. Two pMOS transistors having their sources at the voltage Vhstrap and the drain of one connected to the gate of the other output the translated switching signal at one of their drains. Two further pMOS transistors having gates at the first voltage Vhsrc are interposed between the two nMOS transistors and the two pMOS transistors.

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patent: 5587676 (1996-12-01), Chowdhury
patent: 5736869 (1998-04-01), Wei

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