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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1998
David G Martin, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
In accordance with the present invention there is provided a tristatable digital MOS output buffer/driver having a significantly reduced subthreshold leakage current. The buffer of the present invention comprises three P-channel transistor devices and three N-channel transistor devices. A reduced subthreshold leakage current is achieved by having the source of the output N-channel transistor device and the output P-channel transistor device connected to nodes having a variable voltage. This adjusts the source-to-body voltages of the output N-channel and P-channel transistor devices to be equal in magnitude to the voltage of the positive supply, resulting in the reduction of subthreshold leakage currents.