Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Output slew rate control
- Patent Title (中): 输出转换速率控制
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Application No.: US11592690Application Date: 2006-11-03
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Publication No.: US07656209B2Publication Date: 2010-02-02
- Inventor: Shizhong Mei
- Applicant: Shizhong Mei
- Applicant Address: US ID Boise
- Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US ID Boise
- Agency: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: H03K5/12
- IPC: H03K5/12

Abstract:
This document discusses, among other things, output slew rate control. Methods and structures are described to provide slew rate control of an output driver circuit such as a DRAM output driver on a die. A selectable combination of series coupled transistors are configured as a parallel array of complementary inverter pairs to provide a divided voltage to a calibrator. The calibrator is configured to respond to a differential voltage to adjust the divided voltage such that the differential voltage is forced to zero. The calibrator outputs a plurality of discrete signals from an up/down counter to switch on and off the individual transistors of the parallel array to increase and decrease a collective current. In some embodiments, transistor channel currents are modulated to step-adjust a voltage based on a ratio associated with a static resistance. In various embodiments, the divided voltage is an analog voltage based on a resistance associated with trim circuitry.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080122511A1 Output slew rate control Public/Granted day:2008-05-29
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