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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2024
Synopsys, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abhishek Roy, West Bengal, IN;
Divaker Sharma, Sambhal, IN;
Kailash Kumar, Hazaribag, IN;
Akhil Thotli, Andhra Pradesh, IN;
Synopsys, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A level shifter implemented with contention mitigation is disclosed. The level shifter generally includes: an input transistor pair; a first cascode transistor pair coupled in cascode with the input transistor pair, respectively; first cross-coupled transistors; a second cascode transistor pair coupled in cascode with the first cross-coupled transistors, respectively; a first level shifter transistor pair having gates coupled to drains of the second cascode transistors pair, respectively; and a first contention mitigation transistor pair coupled between a first reference voltage node and the first level shifter transistor pair, respectively.