Mos Electronics Corporation

Kevin W Glass

Ashok Nagarajan

A comparator circuit is provided that determines whether a given value is within a selected compare range. The comparator circuit electronically implements a Ling Adder algorithm to perform comparisons. The circuit operates at a high speed and requires fewer components compared to circuitry implementing a conventional carry look ahead algorithm. The circuit may be implemented in CMOS technology.

Digital comparator circuit

A charge-pump phase locked loop circuit is disclosed that is capable of operating with a high bandwidth while having a low associated noise jitter characteristic. In addition, the phase locked loop circuit has a high dynamic range and prevents against false locking to sub-harmonic frequencies. Furthermore, common mode noise rejection and other internal noise rejection characteristics are optimized.

Charge-pump phase locked loop circuit

An output buffer circuit is disclosed that has optimized ground bounce characteristics while maintaining low propagation delay. The output buffer may be incorporated within an integrated circuit and may be embodied in either inverting or non-inverting and in either enabling and non-enabling configurations. The output buffer circuit includes a feedback means coupled to the output terminal of the output buffer and to a pull-down transistor. The feedback means provides a feedback voltage to the gate of the pull-down transistor to regulate the derivative of source current with respect to time. The feedback means includes a pair of field effect transistors and either an inverter gate or a NOR gate coupled across one of the feedback field effect transistors.

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Kevin W Glass