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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. 14, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Leslie Ronald Avery, Flemington, NJ (US);
Peter D Gardner, Bensalem, PA (US);
Assignees:
Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ (US);
Sharp Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
327333 ; 327 52 ; 327 65 ; 326 62 ;
Abstract
A crisscross level shifter comprising a pull-down circuit configured as a pair of cascode amplifiers and a crisscross pull-up circuit. The cascode amplifiers are enhanced by a feedforward circuit coupling, for both amplifiers, the input of one cascode amplifier to the output of the other cascode amplifier.