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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 1985
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1983
Applicant:
Inventors:
Wayne R Kraft, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Victor S Moore, Gainesville, FL (US);
William L Stahl, Jr, Coral Springs, FL (US);
Nandor G Thoma, Boca Raton, FL (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ; H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
307473 ; 307443 ; 3072 / ; 307270 ;
Abstract
A tristate driver circuit is provided on an integrated circuit chip for driving a bus line or signal line located off of the chip. This circuit very rapidly charges the bus line or signal line to positive voltage level each time and just before it switches to its tristate or high impedance output condition. This eliminates the need for a pull-up resistor or pull-up transistor to be connected to the off-chip bus line or signal line.