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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2008
Dening Wang, McKinney, TX (US);
Yuan Gu, Dallas, TX (US);
Lin Chen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jonathan Scott Brodsky, Richardson, TX (US);
Wei-chung Wu, Richardson, TX (US);
Wenliang Chen, Plano, TX (US);
Dening Wang, McKinney, TX (US);
Yuan Gu, Dallas, TX (US);
Lin Chen, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jonathan Scott Brodsky, Richardson, TX (US);
Wei-Chung Wu, Richardson, TX (US);
Wenliang Chen, Plano, TX (US);
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
Various apparatuses, methods and systems for protecting a driver from electrostatic discharge are disclosed herein. For example, some exemplary embodiments provide a driver, including a buffer, a leakage path blocking transistor connected to an output of the buffer, and an output driver connected to an output of the leakage path blocking transistor. Current from the output driver to the buffer is substantially blocked by the leakage path blocking transistor.