Patent ID: 11949425
Assignee: XILINX, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. The transmit driver circuit of claim 1, wherein:
each DAC driver slice further comprises:
a driver unit cell comprising a pull-up transistor and a pull-down transistor having a drain coupled to a drain of the pull-up transistor; and
a predriver having a first output coupled to a gate of the pull-up transistor and having a second output coupled to a gate of the pull-down transistor, the predriver comprising:
a first inverter having an input coupled to a common input node of the predriver and having an output coupled to the first output of the predriver; and
a second inverter having an input coupled to the common input node of the predriver and having an output coupled to the second output of the predriver; and

transistors in at least one of the first inverter or the second inverter have different strengths.