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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2014

Filed:

Nov. 29, 2012
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Christian I. Menolfi, Rueschlikon, CH;

Thomas H. Toifl, Rueschlikon, CH;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/16 (2006.01); H03K 19/003 (2006.01); H03K 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/0005 (2013.01); H03K 19/00369 (2013.01); H03K 19/00384 (2013.01);
Abstract

An inverter-type high speed driver circuit having a first inverter branch and a second inverter branch wherein each of the inverter branches comprising a parallel circuit of a serial connection of a first impedance tuning unit and a respective first clocking transistor and a serial connection of a second impedance tuning unit and a respective second clocking transistor. The impedance tuning units are configured to adapt the conductivity of the respective inverter branch to set the output impedance of the driver circuit and each of the impedance tuning units is controlled in accordance with a data stream.


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