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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1994
Kai Schleupen, Echterdingen, DE;
Ernst Luder, Stuttgart, DE;
Other;
Abstract
The circuit device has a plurality of cascaded stages. Each cascaded stage includes several partial stages and has at most two capacitors (C.sub.n1, C.sub.nB) and at most seven transistors (T.sub.n1, T.sub.n2, T.sub.n3, T.sub.n4, T.sub.n5, T.sub.n6, T.sub.n7). The circuit device includes a device for controlling the cascaded stages with four periodic clock signals (.PHI..sub.1, .PHI..sub.2, .PHI..sub.3, .sub.101 .sub.4) phase-shifted about 90.degree. relative to each other such that each of the cascaded stages is controlled by a respective assigned one of four predetermined sets of two of the four periodic clock signals and the same one of the four predetermined set repeats every fifth cascaded stage. Each cascaded stage includes an output stage (12, 12') including a bootstrap-capacitor (C.sub.nB) and three transistors (T.sub.n5, T.sub.n6, T.sub.n7) electrically connected to the bootstrap-capacitor (C.sub.nB); and a charging and discharging stage (11) for the bootstrap-capacitor (C.sub.nB). The charging and discharging stage (11) includes at least one transistor (T.sub.n4) connected electrically to the bootstrap capacitor (C.sub.nB). Each cascaded stage can advantageously also include an inverter stage connected to the charging and discharging stage and including two transistors (T.sub.n1, T.sub.n2) and a memory capacitor (C.sub.n1) electrically connected with each other and controlled by an input signal so that so that both transistors (T.sub.n1, T.sub.n2) are never simultaneously conducting.