Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Signal transmitting device suited to fast signal transmission
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Application No.: US12116541Application Date: 2008-05-07
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Publication No.: US07791366B2Publication Date: 2010-09-07
- Inventor: Toshitsugu Takekuma , Ryoichi Kurihara , Akira Yamagiwa
- Applicant: Toshitsugu Takekuma , Ryoichi Kurihara , Akira Yamagiwa
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP.
- Priority: JP5-334631 19931228
- Main IPC: H03K19/003
- IPC: H03K19/003

Abstract:
A signal transmitting circuit includes a circuit block having a driving circuit and an intra-block transmission line for transmitting a signal from the driving circuit, a circuit block having a receiving circuit and an intra-block transmission line for transmitting the signal to said receiving circuit, and a main interblock transmission line for propagating a signal between the driving and receiving circuit blocks. The inter-block transmission line is terminated by a resistor having substantially the same impedance as the interblock transmission line. The intra-block transmission lines are provided with a resistance element having a resistance substantially equal to a value derived by subtracting half of an impedance of the inter-block transmission line from an impedance of the intra-block transmission line, to lower signal amplitude and suppress reflections of a signal at branch points along the main interblock transmission line, thereby enabling a high-speed signal transfer.
Public/Granted literature
- US07911224B2 Signal transmitting device suited to fast signal transmission Public/Granted day:2011-03-22
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