Abstract:
An integrated circuit, formed on a common substrate, having one portion operated from a first source of operating potential and another portion operated from a second source of operating potential. Separate wells are diffused in said substrate for the connection thereto of the different voltages and a reference potential common to the two sources of operating potential is applied to the common substrate. Transistors having a given potential applied to their source electrodes are formed in the common substrate or in a well having the same given potential connected thereto for eliminating potential differences between the source and the substrate of the transistors.
Abstract:
A monostable multivibrator comprising two cross-coupled inverters having substantially identical threshold voltage levels. Each cross-coupled path includes a charge storage means and there is also included a discharge path for each charge storage means. In response to complementary input signals to the inverters, the multivibrator switches from a first state to a second state and, in response to the first of either charge storage means discharging to the threshold voltage level, the multivibrator switches back to its first state.
Abstract:
Two field-effect transistors interconnected in such a way that the output voltage produced by the first, which is a function of its voltage threshold, controls the conductivity of the second. One transistor may be reverse biased source-to-substrate to maintain its threshold voltage higher than that of the other. A small change in voltage level may be detected by this circuit by causing that change concurrently to reduce the source-tosubstrate reverse bias of the first transistor and to reverse bias the source-to-substrate of the second transistor.
Abstract:
The sum of the threshold voltages of two transistors of different conductivity type is employed as a reference level in voltage sensing and other circuits. A first transistor connected as a diode and its current source are connected in series between a pair of terminals to which a voltage to be sensed is applied. A second transistor of different conductivity type than the first transistor is connected at its control electrode to the connection of the diode to its current source. The conduction path of the second transistor in series with its load is connected at at least one end to one of the pair of terminals.
Abstract:
A buffer circuit to interface between a complementary fieldeffect transistor (FET) circuit operated at a first voltage level and a load circuit operated at a second voltage level having a lower value than said first voltage level. The buffer includes an input stage and an output stage. The output stage includes two transistors of opposite conductivity connected in parallel to clamp the buffer output point to the positive terminal of the second power supply and a third transistor to clamp the buffer output point to the negative terminal of the second supply. The input stage includes a complementary inverter operated at the first voltage level which in response to output signals from the FET circuit generates complementary signals used to enable either the parallel combination of the two transistors or the third transistor.