International Business Machines Corporation

Verisilicon Holdings Company Ltd.

WuQuan Zhang

Daniel Mark Dreps

Yi Xiao

Jian Guan

A circuit includes: a pull down circuit including a first PFET and a second PFET connected in series between a pad of a USB circuit and ground; and a pull up circuit including a first NFET and a second NFET connected in series between the pad and a supply voltage. The circuit includes: a third PFET connected to a gate of the first PFET and a gate of the second PFET; a third NFET connected to a gate of the first NFET and a gate of the second NFET; a fourth PFET connected to the first NFET and the second NFET; and a fourth NFET connected to the first PFET and the second PFET. A pad voltage has a nominal minimum and maximum. Each of the first PFET, the second PFET, the first NFET, and the second NFET has a nominal voltage less than the pad voltage nominal maximum.

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