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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2015
Applicant:
SK Hynix Inc., Incheon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventor:
Hyun Bae Lee, Icheon-si, KR;
Assignee:
SK hynix Inc., Icheon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/018 (2006.01); H03K 19/0185 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/0185 (2013.01);
Abstract
A semiconductor apparatus may include an output driver configured to output an internal signal to an external device. The output driver may include a pad coupled to the external device, a pull-up driver coupled to the pad at an end thereof, a first resistance element coupled to the pull-up driver at an end thereof, and configured to receive a first source voltage at the other end thereof, a pull-down driver coupled to the pad at an end thereof, and a second resistance element coupled to the pull-down driver at an end thereof, and configured to receive a first ground voltage at the other end thereof.