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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1998
Chuen-Der Lien, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Ta-Ke Tien, Cupertino, CA (US);
Integrated Device Technology, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In a buffer circuit a pull-up circuit causes an output terminal of the buffer circuit make a transition from a low voltage to a high, and a feedback circuit increases the rate of the transition during the part of the transition when the output terminal moves from the low voltage to a predesignated voltage, the predesignated voltage being a value between but different from the low and high voltages. In another buffer circuit powered by a power supply voltage, a pull-up transistor causes a signal at an output terminal of the buffer circuit make a transition from a low voltage to a high voltage, and a converter circuit converts the power supply voltage to a lower voltage, the lower voltage powering the pull-up transistor.