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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2017
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 9/04 (2006.01); H01L 27/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02H 9/046 (2013.01); H01L 27/0266 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment includes a tie-off circuit includes multiple field effect transistors (FETs), and a node isolation circuit that is connected to a first output node and a second output node of the tie-off circuit. The node isolation circuit consists of a first FET with a third output node and a second FET with a fourth output node. The second output node includes a logical LO node and is coupled to a gate of the first FET and generates a TIE HI output.