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US 2019/0295607 A1Published application
Apparatuses and methods for power efficient driver circuits
AssigneeMicron Technology, Inc.
InventorsTimothy M. Hollis, Dean D. Gans, Larren G. Weber
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Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a driver circuit configured to selectively provide a first supply voltage to an output node in a first operating mode and to selectively provide a second supply voltage to the output node in a second operating mode, based on one or more enable signals.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a driver circuit configured to drive an output signal with a first voltage provided by a first plurality of transistors coupled in parallel or to drive the output signal with a second voltage provided by a second plurality of transistors coupled in parallel;
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- a signal mode circuit configured to provide one or more enable signals to cause the driver circuit to drive the output signal with the first voltage or the second voltage based on an operating speed or bandwidth of a memory.
An apparatus comprising:
- first, second and third voltage lines configured to receive first, second and third voltages, respectively;
- a plurality of first transistors, each of the plurality of first transistors being coupled between the first voltage line and an output node and configured to receive an associated one of a plurality of first enable signals;
- a plurality of second transistors, each of the plurality of second transistors being coupled between the second voltage line and the output node and configured to receive an associated one of a plurality of second enable signals;
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- a plurality of third transistors, each of the plurality of third transistors being coupled between the third voltage line and the output node and configured to receive an associated one of a plurality of third enable signals,
- wherein the plurality of third enable signals are different from the plurality of first enable signals and the plurality of second enable signals.
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A method comprising:
- selectively providing a first plurality of enable signals to respective gates of a first set of transistors, and a second plurality of enable signals to respective gates of a second set of transistors;
- driving an output signal with the first set of transistors coupled to a first voltage based on the first plurality of enable signals received at the respective gates of the first set of transistors;
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- driving the output signal with the second set of transistors coupled to a second voltage based on the second plurality of enable signals received at the respective gates of the second set of transistors.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.