An output buffer includes at least a first and a second stage, wherein each stage is formed by respective first transistors and second transistors coupled in series with each other between a first and a second voltage reference. The coupled first and second transistors have a common conduction terminal connected to an output terminal of the output buffer. An input terminal of the buffer is connected to control terminals of the transistors of the first stage through a first open loop driving circ...

An output circuit for a circuit includes an input node coupled to the circuit, an output node, a reference potential terminal, a supply potential terminal, a semiconductor switch connected between the input node and the output node, and a control circuit. The control circuit is designed to open the semiconductor switch when the potential at the output node is higher than a first limit potential depending on a potential applied to the supply potential terminal, or when the potential is lower than...

According to one embodiment a semiconductor device is provided. The device includes a first compensator to generate a first compensated signal and a first limiter to control operation of the first compensator. Furthermore, a second compensator to generate a second compensated signal and a second limiter to control operation of the second compensator is provided. An output device is adapted to receive the first compensated signal and the second compensated signal to drive an output.

The present invention relates to an output circuit. A first external power is supplied to be used as a second external power in a normal operating mode, and the supply of the power is shut off and an output driver is made to have a HIGH impedance state in a deep power down mode, by a control signal that is applied as different potentials in the normal operating mode and the deep power down mode. Therefore, it is possible to prevent consumption of internal current and introduction of a signal fro...

An output driver includes a pull-up unit including a pull-up element and a first inductive peaking element connected in series between a first voltage and an output node and a pull-down unit including a pull-down element and a second inductive peaking element connected in series between a second voltage and the output node. The pull-up and pull-down elements receive an input data signal and adjust a voltage level of the output node, and the first and second inductive peaking elements perform an ...

The present invention discloses an output circuit, by which it is possible to reduce power consumption while maintaining maximum voltage value to be outputted at high level. In this output circuit, a charge-and-discharge circuit uses a terminal voltage Vc of a capacitor as a trapezoidal wave voltage, and a drive circuit drives an output transistor based on the terminal voltage Vc, and a voltage Vo equal to the terminal voltage Vc is outputted to the load. A voltage detection circuit detects an e...

The generation of a controlled voltage signal as a buffer control signal for an output driver provides for relatively less delay for a high output enable access for an output buffer. As the output buffer undergoes the transition from a deselected state to a selected state to generate an output signal corresponding to a high input signal, a first voltage level is generated at a node and output as the control signal for the output driver, providing for an initial pull-up transition for the output ...

An output buffer with a variable output impedance is described. The buffer is designed so that the output impedance is set relatively low during the initial portion of the output transition in which the step would occur. The output impedance is increased near the end of the transmission to approximate the characteristic impedance of a transmission line driven by the buffer. Specifically, a first feedback circuit in the variable impedance output buffer outputs a first control signal in a first st...

A convergence output circuit for converging signals corresponding to the primary colors of an input video signal which reduces power loss by including a positive power source voltage supply circuit for supplying a first voltage to a first current supply circuit during a blanking period of the input video signal and for supplying a second voltage, lower than the first voltage, to the first current supply circuit during a scanning period of the video signal, both the first and second voltages bein...

An output apparatus provided with an input unit for entering character information, a printing unit for printing the character information entered by the input unit, a memory unit for storing the character information entered by the input unit, and a selection unit for selecting a part of the character information printed by the printing unit, wherein the part, selected by the selection unit, of the character information can be re-printed by the printing unit.