Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Integrated circuit comprising at least one digital output port having an adjustable impedance, and corresponding adjustment method
- Patent Title (中): 集成电路包括至少一个具有可调阻抗的数字输出端口和相应的调整方法
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Application No.: US13904606Application Date: 2013-05-29
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Publication No.: US08975938B2Publication Date: 2015-03-10
- Inventor: Dimitri Soussan , Sylvain Majcherczak , Alexandre Valentian , Marc Belleville
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics SA , Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
- Applicant Address: FR Montrouge FR Grenoble
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics SA,Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics SA,Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives
- Current Assignee Address: FR Montrouge FR Grenoble
- Agency: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.
- Priority: FR1254950 20120530
- Main IPC: H03L5/00
- IPC: H03L5/00 ; H03K19/0185 ; H01L27/12

Abstract:
An integrated circuit may include a digital output port including a buffer stage that includes subassemblies of MOSFET transistors. One subassembly may include two pull-up transistors having sources connected to a common high voltage, and having drains connected to a common node connected to the output terminal. Another subassembly may include pull-down transistors having sources connected to a common low voltage, and having drains connected to the common node. The pull-up and pull-down transistors are formed in a thin semiconductor layer of an FDSOI substrate. The substrate may include a thick semiconductor layer and an oxide layer separating the thin and thick semiconductor layers. Areas of the thick semiconductor layer facing the pull-up and pull-down transistors may be connected to a circuit configured to vary a threshold voltage of the pull-up and pull-down transistors.
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