Abstract: Electronic switch for use as a crosspoint in switching networks of space-division telephone exchanges where it is connected to function as an open circuit stable negative resistance provding ON-attenuation compensated signal transmission, the switch being constituted by a circuit arrangement which lends itself to monolithic integration and which, when switched off, prevents undersirable attenuation of crosspoints connected to the same row or column of the switching system.

Abstract: A monolithic integrated semiconductor circuit including a plurality of low on-state resistance vertical bipolar switching transistors for connecting a series of input lines, as desired, to one or more output lines wherein each of said switching transistors comprises a substrate region of a first type of conductivity having a first layer thereon of the second type of conductivity, a second layer on the first layer and of the second type of conductivity but with a lower doping than the first layer, a third layer of the first type of conductivity in the second layer, a fourth layer of the second type of conductivity in the third layer, a tank like structure formed from the first layer and a region encircling the second third and fourth layers and of the second type of conductivity, a first frame like region of the second type of conductivity encircling the tank like structure, a second frame like region encircling the first frame like region and being of the first type of conductivity and in contact with the sub

Abstract: In an electronic switching device for use as the switching component of a switching network in a telephone central office, the device being composed of a switching transistor connected in series in the signal conduction path for switched signals and a controllable impedance connected in a shunt branch, the switching transistor, in its conductive state, having a low series resistance and an associated high shunt resistance, and, in its blocking state, having a high series resistance and an associated low shunt resistance, the shunt branch is composed of a control transistor having a control voltage applied to its base, having its collector connected to the base of the switching transistor, and having its emitter connected to the switching transistor through a resistor to constitute a feedback path for the switching transistor, a voltage-dependent resistor connected to the base of the switching transistor, and suitable sources of operation voltages, the voltages and characteristics of the voltage-dependent resi