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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:
Sep. 26, 2000
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Walter Francis Bridgewater, Jr, San Jose, CA (US);
William C Gintz, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Adaptec, Inc., Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
326 33 ; 326 30 ; 326 86 ;
Abstract
A bias compensator circuit for significantly reducing an offset produced by a termination bias that is associated with a differential pair bus. The differential pair bus is connected to a driver. The bias compensator circuit includes: (a) a signal source connected to a first line of the differential pair; (b) a first switch for switching ON the signal source while the driver is driving; (c) a signal sink connected to a second line of the differential pair; and (d) a second switch for switching ON the signal sink while the driver is driving.