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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1987
Ji L Yang, Pal Alto, CA (US);
Ronald J Melanson, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Abstract
A current mode logic circuit which is implemented with metal-semiconductor field effect transistors (MESFETs) has a triggering circuit which produces hysteresis in the output of the circuit. That is, the output switches abruptly after the input has almost completed a corresponding transition from one logical output to another in a manner characteristic of triggering circuits such as Schmidt triggers. A triggering voltage is generated in response to one of two complementary outputs by triggering transistors configured as a current switch. The triggering voltage delays switching of a logic switching circuit which produces the two outputs which are a logical or boolean function of the input or inputs. The MESFETs are implemented in gallium arsenide technologies and output is equal to the inverted input.