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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2001
Filed:
May. 05, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Arch Zaliznyak, San Jose, CA (US);
Yogendra K. Bobra, San Jose, CA (US);
Madhavi Kola, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/500 ;
Abstract
A field programmable logic device features an active device driver employing CMOS circuitry that includes a complementary CMOS inverter in electrical communication with a tri-state CMOS inverter, with the tri-state CMOS inverter defining a data input and a data output of the active device driver. The CMOS complementary inverter has an input node and an output node. The CMOS tri-state inverter is coupled to the input node, defining a control input for the active device driver.