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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:
Mar. 10, 1987
Filed:
Aug. 12, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Joseph D Schutz, Portland, OR (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ; H03K / ; H03K / ; H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
307482 ; 307578 ; 307585 ; 307579 ;
Abstract
A bootstrapped driver particularly suitable for CMOS integrated circuits. The circuit permits precharging of gates which require bootstrapping in the driver, thus avoiding the time required in prior art circuits to charge relatively large gate capacitance after the input signal is applied to the driver. A circuit is provided to reduce the bootstrapping of the gate after it has begun to reduce possible gate edge aided breakdown. Substantial improvement in rise time or fall time is achieved.