Multiple phase clock buffer module with non-saturated...

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H03K 19/017 (2006.01) H03K 5/15 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1250624

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A clock buffer circuit for multiple phase complementary clocking signals that receives a plurality of corresponding enabling signals and generates a like plurality of clock signals in response thereto. Each clocking signal is generated by a buffer module including a resistor, a pull-up transistor and a pull-down transistor, which are connected in series between a positive power supply and ground, with the clocking signal being taken from the node between the pull-up and pull-down transistors. In each module, before the clocking signal shifts from a low state to a high, the pull-down transistor is on so that the clocking signal is at a low state. The pull-up transistor in each module is controlled by the corresponding enabling signal and is enabled to begin conducting at the time that the clocking signal is to shift to a high state. The resistor keeps the pull-up transistor in its linear, non-saturated operating regions, which results in an increase in the intrinsic capacitance in the pull-up transistor from the saturated condition. After the pull-up transistor is turned on, allowing the intrinsic capacitance of the pull-up transistor to charge, the pull-down transistor is then turned off and the gate of the pull-up transistor is isolated. The voltage levels at the gate and source terminals of the pull-up transistor rise in a bootstrapping operation. When the clock signal is to shift to a low state, the complementary phase clocking signal turns on the pull-down transistor.

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