Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Rail-to-rail line driver using differential cascode bootstraping
- Patent Title (中): 轨到轨线路驱动器使用差分共源共栅引导
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Application No.: US14090512Application Date: 2013-11-26
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Publication No.: US09281967B2Publication Date: 2016-03-08
- Inventor: Yuan Yao , Jing Wang , Junhua Tan , Mostafa Mohammad Hany Ali Hammad , Hui Pan
- Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Irvine
- Assignee: BROADCOM CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: BROADCOM CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Irvine
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Main IPC: G11C8/00
- IPC: G11C8/00 ; H04L25/02 ; H03F3/21 ; H03F3/45

Abstract:
Aspects of rail-to-rail line drivers using differential cascode bootstrapping are described. In one embodiment, a differential line driver includes first and second differential driver output legs. The first output leg includes a first p-type cascode stack and a first n-type cascode stack, and the second output leg includes a second p-type cascode stack and a second n-type cascode stack. The differential line driver also includes a differential cascode bootstrap circuit arrangement coupled to an output of the differential line driver. More particularly, the differential cascode bootstrap circuit arrangement is coupled between the first and second differential output driver legs and the output of the differential line driver. According to aspects of the embodiments described herein, differential line drivers with overvoltage protection and rail-to-rail output swings may be achieved. Further, the differential line drivers may be generally smaller, with cascode stack transistors of reduced in size.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150137887A1 RAIL-TO-RAIL LINE DRIVER USING DIFFERENTIAL CASCODE BOOTSTRAPING Public/Granted day:2015-05-21
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