Patent ID: 11902057
Assignee: MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 6:
7. The apparatus of claim 1, comprising the DFE tap circuitry, the DFE tap circuitry including:
a first common mode current source;
a second common mode current source;
a first pull-down current source;
a second pull-down current source;
a first pair of transistors including one of the first transistors electrically connected from the first common mode current source to the first pull-down current source and one of the second transistors electrically connected from the second common mode current source to the first pull-down current source; and
a second pair of transistors including another one of the first transistors electrically connected from the second common mode current source to the second pull-down current source and another one of the second transistors electrically connected from the first common mode current source to the second pull-down current source.