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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. 24, 1996
Filed:
Apr. 26, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mark E Burchfield, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Cyrix Corporation, Richardson, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
326 17 ; 326 95 ; 326112 ;
Abstract
A pre-charge load device to pre-charge an input on a sense amplifier is coupled between a positive voltage rail and the input to the sense amplifier and is biased by a bias network coupled between the positive voltage rail and the sense amplifier input to adapt the sense amplifier slew rate in relation to large or unpredictable capacitive impedance changes on the sense amplifier input.