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Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 13, 2015
Applicant:

Inphi Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Cosmin Iorga, Newbury Park, CA (US);

Jeffrey C. Yen, Westlake Village, CA (US);

Assignee:

INPHI CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/012 (2006.01); H03K 17/56 (2006.01); H03K 17/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/012 (2013.01); H03K 17/56 (2013.01); H03K 17/165 (2013.01);
Abstract

A driver integrated circuit (IC) device. The driver device can include a front-end module, a pre-driver module, and a driver module coupled to a transmission line path. The pre-driver module can be coupled to the front-end module and can include one or more delay adjust capacitor modules, and one or more pull-down control modules. The driver module can be coupled to the pre-driver module, the driver module including one or more pull-down control logic modules. This driver device can configured in several implementations to provide control and programmability of a driver slew rate to maximize a signal integrity eye opening.


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