Reduced-power dynamic data circuits with wide-band energy recovery
AssigneeRezonent Corporation
InventorIgnatius Bezzam
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Abstract
Reduced-power dynamic data circuits with wide-band energy recovery are described herein. In one embodiment, a circuit system comprises at least one sub-circuit in which at least one of the sub-circuits includes a capacitive output node that is driven between low and high states in a random manner for a time period and an inductive circuit path coupled to the capacitive output node. The inductive circuit path includes a transistor switch and an inductor connected in series to discharge and recharge the output node to a bias supply. A pulse generator circuit generates a pulse width that corresponds to a timing for driving the output node.
Claims8
A digital logic driver comprising:
- an output node;
- a first load capacitance of the output node;
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- a resonant inductor intermittently coupled to the first load capacitance to resonant during a resonant mode, the resonant inductor has a reduced size due to being shared with multiple digital logic drivers, wherein the digital logic driver reuses electrical energy at several load capacitances including the first load capacitance and a second load capacitance, as part of a signal path of the digital logic driver without interfering with the signal path of the output node, wherein the resonant inductor is intermittently connected to at least one of the load capacitances for an optimum duration such that as the output node transitions from a logic high state to a logic low state and magnetic energy is established in the resonant inductor and stored in a power supply, and then recovered by way of the resonant inductor to help transition the output node back to the logic high state from the logic low state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.