Techniques for precision biasing output driver for a calibrated on-chip termination circuit
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Mar 16, 2010
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Aug 5, 2005
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Techniques are provided for controlling an on-chip termination (OCT) in an output driver. The OCT control circuit calibrates the effective resistance of transistors in the output driver to match an external resistor using a feedback loop. The feedback loop monitors the output voltage and generates an analog calibration signal that varies the output impedance of a selected group of the output transistors that are enabled to drive the output terminal. Digital signals under the control of the user select the number of output transistors to be enabled based on the output driver requirements of the circuit. The analog calibration signal varies the signal level driving the selected output transistors to modify the effective output impedance of the circuit for better termination matching.
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