发明公开
EP1110321A1 METHOD AND CIRCUITRY FOR HIGH SPEED BUFFERING OF CLOCK SIGNALS
有权
方法和电路装置,高速BUFFERING时钟信号
- 专利标题: METHOD AND CIRCUITRY FOR HIGH SPEED BUFFERING OF CLOCK SIGNALS
- 专利标题(中): 方法和电路装置,高速BUFFERING时钟信号
-
申请号: EP00945082.6申请日: 2000-06-30
-
公开(公告)号: EP1110321A1公开(公告)日: 2001-06-27
- 发明人: WARWAR, Greg
- 申请人: Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation
- 申请人地址: 741 Calle Plano Camarillo,California 93012 US
- 专利权人: Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation
- 当前专利权人: Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation
- 当前专利权人地址: 741 Calle Plano Camarillo,California 93012 US
- 代理机构: Müller, Wolfram Hubertus, Dr. Dipl.-Phys.
- 优先权: US345885 19990701
- 国际公布: WO0103300 20010111
- 主分类号: H03K19/017
- IPC分类号: H03K19/017 ; H03K19/0185
摘要:
A high bandwidth clock buffer, including a steering circuit, significantly increases the maximum frequency at which CMOS technology can be used to perform high-speed logic functions. In particular, the clock buffer includes a steering circuit for enhancing a voltage follower stage. The steering circuit includes steering transistors positioned between voltage follower transistors and constant current sources. The steering circuit switches all or substantially all of the current from both of the constant current sources through whichever of the two voltage follower transistors is being pulled low, thus doubling the amount of current that is available for slewing when the output is being pulled low. At the same time, since the voltage follower transistor that is being pulled high no longer has to source the constant current I0, the effective maximum current that can be supplied to charge up the load capacitance is increased by approximately I0. The clock buffer provides a higher unity gain bandwidth than a standard CML buffer, while maintaining a well controlled delay which will track other logic gates.
公开/授权文献
信息查询