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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2000
Filed:
May. 08, 1998
Charles S Stephens, Corvallis, OR (US);
Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An application specific integrated circuit for use with a circuit having particular electrical characteristic such as ringing or impedance. The circuit has an output pad with an output transistor having a drain connected to the output pad, and a gate connected to the drain of a predriver transistor. The output transistor has a gate-source capacitance characteristic, and the predriver transistor has a predriver time constant above a selected threshold based on the electrical characteristic. The first predriver transistor also has a selected resistance based on the predriver time constant and the gate-source capacitance characteristic, such that the first predriver is operable to switch the output transistor at a sufficiently slow rate to avoid ringing.