Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hybrid impedance compensation in a buffer circuit
- Patent Title (中): 缓冲电路中的混合阻抗补偿
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Application No.: US13165195Application Date: 2011-06-21
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Publication No.: US08598941B2Publication Date: 2013-12-03
- Inventor: Dipankar Bhattacharya , Ashish V. Shukla , John Christopher Kriz , Makeshwar Kothandaraman , Pankaj Kumar , Pramod Parameswaran
- Applicant: Dipankar Bhattacharya , Ashish V. Shukla , John Christopher Kriz , Makeshwar Kothandaraman , Pankaj Kumar , Pramod Parameswaran
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: LSI Corporation
- Current Assignee: LSI Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Otterstedt, Ellenbogen & Kammer, LLP
- Main IPC: H01L37/00
- IPC: H01L37/00

Abstract:
A compensation circuit for controlling a variation in output impedance of at least one buffer circuit includes a monitor circuit and a control circuit coupled with the monitor circuit. The monitor circuit includes a pull-up portion including at least one PMOS transistor and a pull-down portion comprising at least one NMOS transistor. The monitor circuit is configured to track an operation of an output stage of the buffer circuit and is operative to generate at least a first control signal indicative of a status of at least one characteristic of corresponding pull-up and pull-down portions in the output stage of the buffer circuit over variations in PVT conditions to which the buffer circuit may be subjected. The control circuit is operative to generate a set of digital control bits as a function of the first control signal. The set of digital control bits is operative to compensate the pull-up and pull-down portions in the output stage of the buffer circuit over prescribed variations in PVT conditions.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120326768A1 Hybrid Impedance Compensation in a Buffer Circuit Public/Granted day:2012-12-27
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