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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:
Dec. 07, 1993

Filed:

Aug. 19, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:

Vincent L Fong, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Hyundai Electronics America, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ; H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
307443 ; 307475 ; 3074821 ;
Abstract

An output buffer circuit, which reduces its switching speed in response to the operation of a neighboring output buffer circuit, is presented. The output buffer circuit has a pair of drive transistors which switch complementarily in responsive to an input signal to the buffer circuit. In normal operation, each of the drive transistors is driven by a speed-up block for high-speed switching. When a similar drive transistor of a neighboring output buffer circuit is also switching, the speed-up block is switched off so that the drive transistor of the first output buffer circuit switches in a slower mode to avoid noise generation. The noise reduction connection between output buffer circuits is in the form of a daisy chain.


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