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Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 24, 2013
Applicant:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Warren R. Anderson, Westborough, MA (US);

Shyam S. Sivakumar, Mountain View, CA (US);

Austen J. Hypher, Cambridge, MA (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/16 (2006.01); H03K 19/003 (2006.01); H03K 19/00 (2006.01); G11C 7/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/0005 (2013.01); G11C 7/1072 (2013.01);
Abstract

A termination impedance apparatus includes a variable pull-up resistor, a variable pull-down resistor, and a small-signal calibration circuit. The variable pull-up resistor is coupled between a first power supply voltage terminal and an output terminal. The variable pull-down resistor is coupled between the output terminal and a second power supply voltage terminal. The small-signal calibration circuit is for calibrating the variable pull-up resistor and the variable pull-down resistor to achieve a desired small-signal impedance.


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