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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jiann-Cherng James Lan, San Jose, CA (US);
Sudarshan Kumar, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
326 98 ; 326104 ; 326108 ;
Abstract
A first pull-up transistor has a gate coupled to a clock signal line and a drain coupled to both a first pull-down transistor and a voltage clamp. A second pull-up transistor has a gate that is also coupled to the clock signal line and a drain coupled to both a second pull-down transistor and a voltage clamp. A shared pull-down transistor has a gate that is also coupled to the clock signal line and a drain coupled to both the first and second pull-down transistors. This circuit may be found useful in clock buffering applications.