International Business Machines Corporation

Barry L Moore

Ronald W Knepper

Ralph D Lane

Peter J Ludlow

An over current protect circuit for a common bus driver having a complementary pair FET output includes a pair of AND circuits responsive to the gate-source and drain-source voltages for charging separate time integrating capacitors. If a threshold charge is reached a latch is triggered, which in turn disables the driver via a NAND gate and Inverter, and discharges the active capacitor. The latch is reset by dropping the driver enable line. As an alternative, high driver current may be sensed by placing a resistor in series with each output FET and charging the associated capacitor in response to a high current through the resistor.

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Barry L Moore