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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.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 1985

Filed:

May. 10, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:

Sterling R Whitaker, Chubbuck, ID (US);

Assignee:

American Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364716 ; 364784 ; 307471 ; 307472 ;
Abstract

PASS transistors are used to reduce the layout complexity of logic circuits by using PASS transistors connected to pass a first and second input function to an output node in response to selected CONTROL signals, thereby to generate a selected output function on the output node. The PASS transistor comprises a transistor capable of passing an input function in response to a CONTROL signal applied to the transistor thereby to generate an output function related to the input function. In general, the input function comprises less than all of a set of input variables and the CONTROL function comprises one or more of the remainder of the set of input variables.


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