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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2007
Applicant:
Yoshinori Nishi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventor:
Yoshinori Nishi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Kawasaki Microelectronics, Inc., Chiba, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/00 (2006.01); H03K 19/094 (2006.01); H03K 5/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An output driver circuit including a pre-driver stage that receives a first data signal, the pre-driver stage including a plurality of first differential pairs that perform current subtraction to output a second data signal based on the first data signal, and an output driver stage electrically coupled to the pre-driver stage that receives the second data signal from the pre-driver stage, the output driver stage including a plurality of second differential pairs that transmit an output signal along transmission lines.