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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:
Mar. 23, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1993
Michael D Cooper, Garland, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A quasi-complementary BICMOS circuit (46) having a clamp circuit that automatically discharges the base-collector of a pull down bipolar transistor (16) when the transistor's (16) collector voltage equalizes its base voltage. The action is immediate and does not depend on the performance of a feedback circuit to provide the timing of the arrival of the clamp signal. The clamp circuit reduces the amount of shallow saturation and quickly discharges shallow saturation after the pull down transition. The degree of shallow saturation is controllable by size selection of the clamp transistor (48). The clamp circuit also discharges the transistor's (16) base voltage to ground potential.
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