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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2012
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Miao Li, San Diego, CA (US);
Jingcheng Zhuang, San Diego, CA (US);
Yan Hu, San Diego, CA (US);
Xiaoliang Bai, San Diego, CA (US);
Jing Kang, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An output driver for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection includes a first pair of stacked metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOS) devices coupled between a power terminal and a first differential output terminal. The output driver also includes a second pair of stacked MOS devices coupled between a second differential output terminal and a ground terminal.