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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2017
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Prasad Chalasani, San Jose, CA (US);
Venkata N. S. N. Rao, Fremont, CA (US);
Majid Jalali Far, San Jose, CA (US);
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A multi-protocol receiver for receiving at least one input signal comprises: a comparator, a protection controller, and a multi-stage current mode logic ('CML') buffer. The comparator compares a reference voltage and a predefined voltage. At least one output of the comparator is coupled to at least one input of the protection controller. The multi-stage current mode logic buffer receives the input signal and the reference voltage. Outputs of the protection controller are coupled to control inputs of the multi-stage CML buffer for operating the multi-stage CML buffer to process the input signal and the reference signal.