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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2003
Jason Chung, Williston, VT (US);
Hongfei Wu, Colchester, VT (US);
Songtao Xu, South Burlington, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In order to reduce slew rate and minimize delay skew, the invention adds a pull-down booster circuit connected to the gate of the driving transistor and/or a pull-up booster circuit connected the gate of the driving transistor. The pull-down booster circuit is adapted to dynamically pull-down the voltage at the gate of the driving transistor when the voltage level at the input to the logical enable device changes from a first voltage (e.g., a logical “0”) to a second voltage (e.g., a logical “1”). The pull-up booster circuit is adapted to dynamically pull-up the voltage at the gate of the driving transistor when the voltage level at the input to the logical enable device changes from the second voltage to the first voltage.