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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:
Nov. 28, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gerd Rombach, Freising, DE;
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
327538 ; 327539 ;
Abstract
An integrated fast bus driver circuit with reduced standby power consumption for BiCMOS processes where the power consumption of the drive circuit corresponds to the output sink current. A feedback circuit is connected to detect voltage variations at the output terminal, and vary the base current of the output bipolar transistor to oppose the voltage variations.