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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1995
Philip W Diodato, Asbury, NJ (US);
Harry T Weston, New Providence, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
In an electronic system such as an integrated circuit having a number of destination loads such as logic gates, signal is distributed along typically a zero'th level (e.g., polysilicon) electrical transmission line from an input terminal to the destination loads. The characteristics of the signal arriving at the destination loads are improved by (1) inserting an added electrical transmission line, and (2) connecting various nodes of the added electrical transmission line through auxiliary active devices, such as inverters, to various nodes on the zero'th level electrical transmission line. In one attractive arrangement, each of the auxiliary active devices has an electrical-current-drive capability that increases monotonically with the number of nodes intervening between it and the input terminal of the added electrical transmission line.