Circuit having increased noise immunity and capable of generating a reference voltage or terminating a transmission line
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Compnay
InventorAlan R. Desroches
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AssigneeHewlett-Packard Compnay
InventorAlan R. Desroches
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A voltage divider suppresses noise in a voltage divider output by filtering the voltages at the gate terminals of the transistors that comprise a voltage divider. In one embodiment of the present invention, a voltage divider includes a PFET transistor coupled between a voltage VDD and the voltage divider output, and an NFET transistor coupled between a voltage VSS and the voltage divider output, with a resistor-capacitor (RC) filter provided at each gate terminal of each of the transistors. In a second embodiment, the RC filter is fabricated using only transistors. In both embodiments, noise is filtered out at the gate terminal of the transistors, thereby eliminating noise in the resulting voltage divider output. Accordingly, a capacitor is not required between the voltage divider output and VSS, as in the prior art.
A voltage divider for providing an output voltage between first and second voltages comprising:
A voltage divider for providing an output voltage between first and second voltages comprising:
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