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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2013
Applicant:
Atmel Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Lloyd Clark, Trondheim, NO;
Assignee:
Atmel Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/16 (2006.01); H03K 19/00 (2006.01); H03K 19/0175 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/0013 (2013.01); H03K 19/017509 (2013.01);
Abstract
An intelligent current drive is disclosed that couples an active current source to a bus line to increase the rate of pull-up and decouples the active current source from the bus line prior to reaching the desired pull-up voltage.