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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2020
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventor:
Amar Kanteti, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/145 (2013.01);
Abstract
An output buffer includes a first group of stagger FETs coupled in parallel between a power lead and an output signal lead and a second group of stagger FETs coupled in parallel between the output signal lead and a ground lead. Each stagger FET has a gate coupled to a respective base resistor and a respective adjustable resistor. A first group of bypass FETs and a second group of bypass FETs are each coupled across the terminals of a respective adjustable resistor and the gates of the bypass FETs are coupled to either a first process-sensing signal lead or a second process-sensing signal lead.