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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 1997
Filed:
Apr. 17, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dean Wallace, Trabuco Canyon, CA (US);
Assignee:
Linfinity Microelectronics, Inc., Garden Grove, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
323224 ; 323281 ; 323269 ;
Abstract
A voltage regulator for use in controllable bus terminators providing a source and a sink to a regulated output without clamping circuitry is disclosed. The regulator maintains a voltage at a node by sourcing current into the node when a cable line sinks current from the node and sinking current from the node when a cable line sources current into the node. By avoiding the use of clamping circuitry, a voltage deadband between the regulator output voltage and the clamp circuit voltage is avoided.