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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 1986
Filed:
Aug. 13, 1984
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mark G Johnson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Thomson Components - Mostek Corporation, Carrollton, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ; H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
307578 ; 3072 / ; 307481 ; 307482 ; 307579 ; 307269 ; 307594 ; 307606 ;
Abstract
A circuit for precharging the gates of pass transistor that will be subsequently bootstrapped employs a precharge circuit that generates a precharge pulse having magnitude greater than Vcc and distributes the pulse to a number of gate control circuits that raise the pass transistor gate voltages from a quiescent voltage level of Vcc-Vt to Vcc at a time before the bootstrapping signals arrive at the pass transistor.