Patents Represented by Attorney Kelley K. Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C. Kordzik
  • Patent number: 6150834
    Abstract: The present invention addresses the foregoing needs by providing a circuit implemented in SOI (silicon on insulator) CMOS, which includes a first node precharged to an activated level, a first transistor coupled between the first node and the second node, a second transistor coupled between the second node and a ground potential, and a third transistor coupled to the second node and operable for preventing the second node from rising to the activated level. The third transistor prevents the parasitic bipolar effect from raising this second node to the activated level. Essentially, the third transistor maintains the second node substantially at a ground level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Kevin Ciraula, Christopher McCall Durham, Peter Juergen Klim