Transmitter and transmission circuit
AssigneeVIA Technologies, Inc.
InventorChih-Min Liu
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Abstract
Transmitter and transmission circuit. For realizing a differential transmitter, a switch circuit is connected between two load transistors of two complementary MOS pairs. The switch circuit can have two inductors. When the two complementary MOS pairs are conducting current to drive signal transition at output nodes, the inductors open to make the load transistors stop draining current. Also, the switch circuit can have switch transistor controlled by an edge detector for detecting raising and falling edges of the input signals, such that the switch circuit can make the load transistors stop draining current accordingly. In this way, raising and falling edges of the output signals are emphasized to improve signal propagation.
Claims13
A transmission circuit for receiving at least one input signal and providing an output signal according to each of the input signals, the transmission circuit comprising:
- an edge detecting circuit for detecting rising edges or falling edges of each of the input signals and accordingly providing a detection signal;
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- a transmitter comprising:
- two driving circuits, each of the driving circuits having a corresponding input signal and a corresponding output node providing a current at the corresponding output node having a direction according to the corresponding input signal;
- two load units, each of the load units coupled to the corresponding output node and matching the output impedance of the corresponding output node;
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- a switch circuit coupled with each of the load units in series to each of the output nodes, wherein one end of each of the load units is coupled to the corresponding output node and the other end of each of the load units is coupled to the switch circuit, receiving the detection signals for controlling each of the load units to sink the current at each of the output nodes according to the detection signal.
A transmitter comprising:
- two driving circuits, each of the driving circuits having a corresponding input signal, a corresponding output node, and two driving units operating in a complementary manner and coupled to the corresponding output node, wherein one of the two driving units is turned on for passing a current to the corresponding output node with a corresponding direction according to the input signal while the other one of the two driving units is turned off;
- two load units coupled to the corresponding output node and matching the output impedance of the corresponding output node;
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- a switch circuit coupled with each of the load units in series to each of the output nodes, wherein one end of each of the load units is coupled to the corresponding output node and the other end of each of the load units is coupled to the switch circuit, receiving a detection signal for controlling each of the load units to sink the current at each of the output nodes according to the detection signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.