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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2016
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventor:
Vipul Kumar Singhal, Karnataka, IN;
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/00 (2006.01); H03K 19/00 (2006.01); H03K 17/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/0016 (2013.01); H03K 17/122 (2013.01);
Abstract
A buffer that drives components during a standby mode includes a first combination of two standard voltage threshold (SVT) transistors and two high voltage threshold (HVT) transistors that generate a logic 1 signal at a first output. A second combination of two SVT transistors and two HVT transistors generates a logic 0 signal at a second output. A power supply operates the buffer, wherein the power supply generates a voltage less that the threshold voltages of the HVT transistors.