- Patent Title: Signal output circuit, transmission circuit and integrated circuit
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Application No.: US16255388Application Date: 2019-01-23
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Publication No.: US10892923B2Publication Date: 2021-01-12
- Inventor: Taku Hiramatsu , Shigeaki Kawai
- Applicant: SOCIONEXT INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Yokohama
- Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
- Current Assignee: SOCIONEXT INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Yokohama
- Agency: Arent Fox LLP
- Priority: JP2018-021183 20180208,JP2018-123104 20180628
- Main IPC: H04L25/49
- IPC: H04L25/49 ; H03K17/687 ; H04B1/04 ; H03K19/0175

Abstract:
A signal output circuit includes: a driver circuit including a variable current source and configured to output a multilevel signal; a replica circuit having a circuit configuration equivalent to the driver circuit; and a control circuit configured to control a characteristic of the driver circuit, based on an output signal of the replica circuit, wherein the replica circuit includes: a first replica circuit part configured to output first output signals having signal levels of a first subset of a plurality of signal levels corresponding to the multilevel signal; and a second replica circuit part configured to output second output signals having signal levels of a second subset of the plurality of signal levels, and the control circuit is configured to control a characteristic of the variable current source, based the first output signals and the second output signals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190245721A1 SIGNAL OUTPUT CIRCUIT, TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2019-08-08
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