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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:
Dec. 01, 1992
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Frank M Wanlass, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Standard Microsystems Corporation, Hauppauge, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
307443 ; 307263 ; 3073172 ;
Abstract
A method of controlling the ill-effects of ground bounce in a CMOS device, according to the present invention, comprises increasing the impedance between (1) the output line of a quiescent channel that is already at a low state, and (2) the local ground within the CMOS device; the increased impedance occurring when a ground bounce condition caused by an adjacent channel within the CMOS device would otherwise cause the output of the quiescent channel to be dragged high.