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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2015
Integrated Device Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
John Hsu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
INTEGRATED DEVICE TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
An output driver is provided that adapts an output impedance of the output driver to the voltage level of a power supply, thereby providing a constant output impedance over a range of different operating voltages. The output driver includes a plurality of individual driver circuits, each one of the plurality of individual driver circuits configured to provide a plurality of predetermined output impedances in response to a plurality of power supply voltage level inputs and a decoder. The decoder of the output driver is configured for receiving a digital codeword representative of a voltage level of a power supply coupled to the output driver and for decoding the digital codeword to activate one or more of the individual driver circuits to provide a constant output impedance from the output driver in response to the voltage level of the power supply coupled to the output driver, wherein the constant output impedance is a combination of the predetermined output impedances of the activated individual driver circuits.