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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2007
Billy Wayne Garrett, Jr., Mountain View, CA (US);
Nancy David Dillon, Legal Representative, Marshall, VA (US);
Michael Tak-kei Ching, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William F. Stonecypher, San Jose, CA (US);
Andy Peng-pui Chan, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew M. Griffin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Billy Wayne Garrett, Jr., Mountain View, CA (US);
Nancy David Dillon, legal representative, Marshall, VA (US);
Michael Tak-Kei Ching, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William F. Stonecypher, San Jose, CA (US);
Andy Peng-Pui Chan, San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew M. Griffin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rambus Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
An output driver circuit and current control technique to facilitate high-speed buses with low noise is used to interface with high-speed dynamic RAMs (DRAMs). The architecture includes the following components: an input isolation block (), an analog voltage divider (), an input comparator (), a sampling latch (), a current control counter (), and a bitwise output driver (output driver Aand output driver B).