Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Level shifter
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Application No.: US17366592Application Date: 2021-07-02
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Publication No.: US11444608B2Publication Date: 2022-09-13
- Inventor: Chien-Yuan Chen , Cheng Hung Lee , Hung-Jen Liao , Hau-Tai Shieh
- Applicant: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: Merchant & Gould P.C.
- Main IPC: H03K3/356
- IPC: H03K3/356 ; H03K19/0185 ; H03K17/687 ; G11C11/56

Abstract:
A level shifter includes: a first inverter configured to receive an input signal in a low voltage domain and shift the input signal from the low voltage domain to a first output signal at a first output terminal in a high voltage domain higher than the low voltage domain in response to a logical high state of a first clock signal in the low voltage domain; a second inverter configured to receive a complement of the input signal and shift the complement of the input signal from the low voltage domain to a second output signal at a second output terminal in the high voltage domain in response to the logical high state; a first NMOS sensing transistor and a second NMOS sensing transistor; a PMOS transistor configured to equalize the first output signal and the second output signal in response to a logical low state of the first clock signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210336609A1 LEVEL SHIFTER Public/Granted day:2021-10-28
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