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I/O circuitry for reducing ground bounce and VCC sag in integrated circuit devices

InactiveUS20070007991A1Reducing ground bounceReduce ground bounceElectronic switchingHeating/cooling contact switchesGround bounceEngineering
Methods and circuitry for reducing ground bounce and VCC sag effects in integrated circuit (“IC”) devices is provided. In particular, a via-programmable design for I / O circuitry in IC devices is provided. The via-programmable I / O circuitry is used to disconnect I / O pin driver circuitry from and create a substantially direct connection between unused I / O pins and the ground and / or VCC signals of an IC device to reduce ground bounce and VCC sag, respectively.
Owner:ALTERA CORP

Slew rate controlled circuits

A slew rate controlled output buffer. The slew rate controlled output buffer comprises a pre-driver circuit having a data input node and a data output node and a driver circuit coupled to the output node of the pre-driver circuit. The pre-driver circuit comprises a plurality of inverters connected in parallel, each having an input terminal coupled to the input node and an output terminal coupled to the output node, wherein at least one of the inverters is selectively disabled by a slew rate control signal via a slew rate controller. The driver circuit is driven by an output signal of the pre-driver circuit.
Owner:MEDIATEK INC

Gate driving circuit and display device having the gate driving circuit

A gate driving circuit includes a first shift register and a second shift register for driving odd gate lines. The first shift register includes a first plurality of cascade-connected stages that sequentially output a plurality of first gate signals. A first stage of the first shift register receives a first vertical start signal. The second shift register includes a second plurality of cascade-connected stages to sequentially output a plurality of second gate signals. The first stage of the second shift register receives an output signal of the first stage of the first shift register as its vertical start signal. A data charging rate may be improved by ensuring the timing margin of each gate signal, so that the driving reliability of the gate driving circuit may be improved.
Owner:SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO LTD

Source line driver and method for controlling slew rate according to temperature and display device including the source line driver

A source line driver and method for controlling a slew rate according to temperature and a display device including the source line driver are provided. The source line driver includes a temperature sensing unit configured to sense a temperature, compare the sensed temperature with a reference temperature, and generate a comparison result as a control signal; and a bias voltage generator configured to output a plurality of bias voltages whose voltage levels are controlled in response to the control signal. Accordingly, the slew rate of an output buffer is controlled based on the sensed temperature, so that false operation caused by heat generated in the source line driver and display panel can be prevented when the temperature is increased.
Owner:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Apparatus and method for improving drive-strength and leakage of deep submicron MOS transistors

An apparatus and method of manufacture for metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistors is disclosed. Devices in accordance with the invention are operable at voltages below 2V. The devices are area efficient, have improved drive strength, and have reduced leakage current. A dynamic threshold voltage control scheme comprised of a forward biased diode in parallel with a capacitor is used, implemented without changing the existing MOS technology process. This scheme controls the threshold voltage of each transistor. In the OFF state, the magnitude of the threshold voltage of the transistor increases, keeping the transistor leakage to a minimum. In the ON state, the magnitude of the threshold voltage decreases, resulting in increased drive strength. The invention is particularly useful in MOS technology for both bulk and silicon on insulator (SOI) CMOS. The use of reverse biasing of the well, in conjunction with the above construct to further decrease leakage in a MOS transistor, is also shown.
Owner:SEMI SOLUTIONS LLC

RC-triggered Semiconductor Controlled Rectifier for ESD Protection of Signal Pads

RC-trigger circuits for a semiconductor controlled rectifier (SCR), methods of providing electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection, and design structures for a RC-trigger circuit. The RC-trigger circuit is coupled to an input / output (I / O) signal pad by an isolation diode and is coupled to a power supply voltage by a power supply diode. Under normal operating conditions, the isolation diode is reverse biased, isolating the RC-trigger circuit from the input / output (I / O) pad, and the power supply diode is forward biased so that the RC-trigger circuit is supplied with power. The isolation diode may become forward biased during ESD events while the chip is unpowered, causing the RC-trigger circuit to trigger an SCR configured protect the signal pad from ESD into a conductive state. The power supply diode may become reverse biased during the ESD event, which isolates the power supply rail from the ESD voltage pulse.
Owner:IBM CORP

Method and apparatus for conversion between quasi differential signaling and true differential signaling

Transmit-side active signal management circuitry applies one or more active signal management processes to a digital signal at a transmit side of an interconnect. At the receive side of the interconnect, receive-side active signal management circuitry applies one or more corresponding active signal management processes, as appropriate, to the received digital signal to recover the information represented by the original digital signal. The interconnect can include a cable used to transmit the signals between a source device and a destination device, whereby one or both of the transmit-side active signal management circuitry and the receive-side active signal management circuitry is implemented at a corresponding cable receptacle of the cable. Alternately, one or both of the transmit-side active signal management circuitry and the receive-side active signal management circuitry can be implemented at a cable adaptor, thereby permitting the use of a passive cable interconnect to transmit the signal.
Owner:XEMI

Encoding and deserialization-serialization for digital signals

Transmit-side active signal management circuitry applies one or more active signal management processes to a digital signal at a transmit side of an interconnect. At the receive side of the interconnect, receive-side active signal management circuitry applies one or more corresponding active signal management processes, as appropriate, to the received digital signal to recover the information represented by the original digital signal. The interconnect can include a cable used to transmit the signals between a source device and a destination device, whereby one or both of the transmit-side active signal management circuitry and the receive-side active signal management circuitry is implemented at a corresponding cable receptacle of the cable. Alternately, one or both of the transmit-side active signal management circuitry and the receive-side active signal management circuitry can be implemented at a cable adaptor, thereby permitting the use of a passive cable interconnect to transmit the signal.
Owner:XEMI

Output buffer circuit and control method therefor

An output buffer includes a first drive circuit that receives an input signal having a sharp waveform and generates an output signal that has a gentle waveform. A second drive circuit is connected to the first drive circuit at an output terminal and has a lower impedance than the first drive circuit. A delay circuit is also connected to the output terminal and generates a delayed output signal. A first control circuit is connected between the delay circuit and the second drive circuit and receives the input signal and the delayed output signal and generates a first control signal used to drive the second drive circuit.
Owner:SOCIONEXT INC

Switch driver with slew rate control

System and method for providing power to circuitry while avoiding a large transient current. A preferred embodiment comprises a distributed switch (such as switch arrangement 400) with a plurality of switches (such as switch 405) coupling a power supply to the circuitry. Each switch is individually controlled by a control signal and is turned on sequentially. Also coupled to each switch is a pre-driver circuit (such as pre-driver circuit 410). The pre-driver circuit comprises a potential adjust circuit (such as potential adjust circuit 505) that rapidly adjusts a voltage potential at the switch and a rate adjust circuit (such as the rate adjust circuit 520) that accelerates the power ramp-up across the switch once transient currents are no longer a concern. Adjusting the voltage potential so that the switch operates in a saturation mode increases an effective capacitance across the switch and thereby retarding the power ramp-up across the switch.
Owner:TEXAS INSTR INC

Semiconductor device and information processing system

The semiconductor device includes an output driver and a characteristic switching circuit that switches characteristics of the output driver. The characteristic switching circuit mutually matches a rising time and a falling time of an output signal output from the output driver, when a power voltage supplied to a power line is a first voltage, with a rising time and a falling time of the output signal output from the output driver, when the power voltage supplied to the power line is a second voltage. As a result, an increase in an influence of a harmonic component or a crosstalk when the power voltage is reduced does not occur. Moreover, because a receiving condition on a receiver side does not change even when the power voltage is reduced, signal transmission and reception can be performed correctly irrespective of the power voltage.
Owner:LONGITUDE LICENSING LTD

Low-leakage level shifter with integrated firewall and method

A level shifter may reduce leakage current and provide firewall protection between circuits of different voltage domains when one voltage domain is in a standby mode. The level shifter may either couple or decouple input circuitry from a reference voltage in response to a firewall enable signal, may translate signals between a first voltage domain and a second voltage domain when the firewall enable signal is deasserted, and may generate an output signal having a predetermined one of either a high or low state when the firewall enable signal is asserted.
Owner:MARVELL ASIA PTE LTD

Semiconductor devices, a system including semiconductor devices and methods thereof

Semiconductor devices, a system including said semiconductor devices and methods thereof are provided. An example semiconductor device may receive data scheduled for transmission, scramble an order of bits within the received data, the scrambled order arranged in accordance with a given pseudo-random sequence. The received data may be balanced such that a difference between a first number of the bits within the received data equal to a first logic level and a second number of bits within the received data equal to a second logic level is below a threshold. The balanced and scrambled received data may then be transmitted. The example semiconductor device may perform the scrambling and balancing operations in any order. Likewise, on a receiving end, another semiconductor device may decode the original data by unscrambling and unbalancing the transmitted data. The unscrambling and unbalancing operations may be performed in an order based upon the order in which the transmitted data is scrambled and balanced.
Owner:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Supply-state-enabled level shifter interface circuit and method

An enable circuit receives an input enable signal that is referenced to a first voltage and generates a level-shifted output enable signal referenced to a second voltage. Bias control circuitry prevents shoot-through currents during ramping of the first voltage and from causing indeterminate logic levels of the level-shifted output enable signal. An enabled level-shifting circuit receives an input logic signal that is referenced to the first voltage and generates a level-shifted output logic signal referenced to the second voltage. Enable circuitry operates in response to the level-shifted output enable signal to enable normal level-shifting operation while the first and second voltages are at normal operating levels and prevents shoot-through currents in the enabled level-shifting circuit from causing indeterminate levels of the level-shifted output logic signal.
Owner:TEXAS INSTR INC

Apparatus and Method for Improving Drive-Strength and Leakage of Deep Submicron MOS Transistors

An apparatus and method of manufacture for metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistors is disclosed. Devices in accordance with the invention are operable at voltages below 2V. The devices are area efficient, have improved drive strength, and have reduced leakage current. A dynamic threshold voltage control scheme comprised of a forward biased diode in parallel with a capacitor is used, implemented without changing the existing MOS technology process. This scheme controls the threshold voltage of each transistor. In the OFF state, the magnitude of the threshold voltage of the transistor increases, keeping the transistor leakage to a minimum. In the ON state, the magnitude of the threshold voltage decreases, resulting in increased drive strength. The invention is particularly useful in MOS technology for both bulk and silicon on insulator (SOI) CMOS. The use of reverse biasing of the well, in conjunction with the above construct to further decrease leakage in a MOS transistor, is also shown.
Owner:SEMI SOLUTIONS

FPGA with a plurality of I/O voltage levels

The invention comprises an FPGA having a plurality of input reference voltages and / or output voltage supplies. In one embodiment, two or more differential amplifiers in the same configurable input buffer use different input reference voltages. According to a second aspect of the invention, the I / O pad line is configurably connected to the input reference voltage line, so that any configurable Input / Output Block (IOB) can be used to supply the input reference voltage. According to a third aspect of the invention, the reference input of an I / O is configurably connected to any of two or more input reference voltage lines. According to another aspect of the invention, a single input reference voltage and / or a single output voltage supply is applied to each IOB, with the IOBs grouped into sets. Each set of IOBs has a separate input reference voltage and / or a separate output voltage supply.
Owner:XILINX INC

Low speed, load independent, slew rate controlled output buffer with no DC power consumption

An output buffer utilizes capacitive feedback to control the output slew rate largely independent of load capacitance. The invention slows the rising and falling slew rates and via a capacitance feedback reduces the effect of load capacitance on slew rate, and uses no DC current. Transistor switches are employed to isolate and reduce noise and interaction among the circuit components and functions.
Owner:SEMICON COMPONENTS IND LLC

Driver circuit

The driver circuit includes a first controlling circuit that outputs, to a gate of the auxiliary pMOS transistor, a first controlling signal that rises in synchronization with a rising of the first pulse signal and falls after a delay from a falling of the first pulse signal. The driver circuit includes a second controlling circuit that outputs, to a gate of the auxiliary nMOS transistor, a second controlling signal that rises in synchronization with a rising of the second pulse signal and falls after a delay from a falling of the second pulse signal.
Owner:KK TOSHIBA

Method and apparatus for parallel data interfacing using combined coding and recording medium therefor

A semiconductor device may include a coding lookup table unit including a plurality of coding lookup tables each of which is selected by a respectively selection signal, and a selection unit configured to receive one of N-bit parallel data and extract respective encoded data corresponding to the selection signal and to which the N-bit parallel data is mapped from the coding lookup table unit, and encoded data and extract respective N-bit parallel data corresponding to the selection signal and to which the encoded data is mapped from the coding lookup table unit, wherein N is 2 or an integer greater than 2, and wherein the coding lookup tables respectively store a plurality of coded data patterns that respectively correspond to patterns of the N-bit parallel data and are random temporally and spatially.
Owner:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Source driver with charge sharing

A source driver includes four output switches, two resistors, and a charge-sharing switch. The first output switch and the first resistor are coupled in series to a first output channel of the source driver. The second output switch and the second resistor are coupled in series to a second output channel of the source driver. The third output switch is coupled in parallel to the first output switch. The fourth output switch is coupled in parallel to the second output switch. The charge-sharing switch is coupled between the first resistor and the second resistor. The third output switch and the fourth output switch are controlled to adjust the resistance of the output current path of the source driver.
Owner:NOVATEK MICROELECTRONICS CORP

Semiconductor integrated circuit

The objective of this invention is to provide a type of semiconductor integrated circuit which can lessen solution in the circuit area to the minimum necessary level, and can lessen the leakage current in the standby state so as to cut the power consumption, and which allows Iddq test to determine whether it is passed or defective. Logic circuit 10 composed of low threshold voltage transistors and switching circuit 20 composed of transistors having the standard threshold voltage are set. In the operation, the switching circuit is turned ON, and a driving current is fed to logic circuit 10. On the other hand, in the standby mode, the switching circuit is turned OFF, and the path of the leakage current is cut off to lessen generation of the leakage current. In the case of Iddq test, different bulk bias voltages are applied to the channel regions of PMOS transistors and NMOS transistors from an IC tester through pads P1 and P2. In this way, the leakage current can be lessened on a low level, and whether the semiconductor integrated circuit is passed or defective can be judged from the results of the current measurement.
Owner:TEXAS INSTR INC

High speed buffer circuit with improved noise immunity

In a buffer circuit a pull-up circuit causes an output terminal of the buffer circuit make a transition from a low voltage to a high, and a feedback circuit increases the rate of the transition during the part of the transition when the output terminal moves from the low voltage to a predesignated voltage, the predesignated voltage being a value between but different from the low and high voltages. In another buffer circuit powered by a power supply voltage, a pull-up transistor causes a signal at an output terminal of the buffer circuit make a transition from a low voltage to a high voltage, and a converter circuit converts the power supply voltage to a lower voltage, the lower voltage powering the pull-up transistor.
Owner:INTEGRATED DEVICE TECH INC

High-speed gate driver for power switches with reduced voltage ringing

A fast power switch comprises one or more field-effect transistors, such as pull-up and pull-down transistors, that are coupled to a load. Respective driver electronic circuits for each of the field-effect transistors include parallel first and second drivers with a shared driver output coupled to a gate of the field-effect transistor. The first and second drivers are operative to switch the shared driver output for the appropriate field-effect transistor in response to a transition (e.g., low-to-high or high-to-low) at a driver input terminal. A control circuit enables the stronger second driver in response to a transition at the driver input terminal and subsequently disables the second driver once a transition threshold at the gate of the field-effect transistor(s) is crossed. The weaker first driver is sized to damp reactive energy at the load to minimize ringing.
Owner:SL3J SYST S A R L

Slew rate controlled output buffer

An output buffer includes first and second circuit portions coupled between input and output terminals. Each circuit portion includes a capacitive element; an output transistor having a gate coupled to the capacitive element, and a drain that drives a voltage at the output terminal; and a current generator configured to generate a charging current that is directed to the capacitive element responsive to a logic transition at the input terminal, wherein the charging current causes a substantially linear ramp voltage to form at the gate of the output transistor, whereby the ramp voltage controls a slew rate of the output terminal voltage.
Owner:AVAGO TECH INT SALES PTE LTD

Gate drive circuit and display apparatus having the same

A gate drive circuit includes m stages cascade connected to one another, each stage respectively outputting one of a plurality of gate signals. An m-th stage includes a pull-up part, a pull-down part, a boost-up part, a first maintenance part and a second maintenance part. The pull-up part outputs a high voltage of a first clock signal at the high voltage of an m-th gate signal. The pull-down part applies a low voltage to an output node of the pull-up part. The boost-up part boosts a voltage charged by an offset second clock signal. The first maintenance part maintains the first node at a low voltage in response to the boosted voltage of the second node. In addition, the second maintenance part maintains the m-th gate signal at the low voltage in response to the high voltage of the first clock signal.
Owner:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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