Patent ID: 8183880

Claim:
An electronic device including a package, the electronic device comprising: at least one externally-accessible terminal; and an integrated circuit chip, the integrated circuit chip including: driver circuitry operable to receive an on-chip signal and drive the on-chip signal off of the chip, the driver circuitry having first and second input terminals and first and second output terminals, one of the first and second input terminals coupled to receive the on-chip signal and the other of the first and second input terminals coupled to receive a complement of the on-chip signal, the driver circuitry operable to produce an output signal at the first output terminal and a complement of the output signal at the second output terminal; a first electrical connector coupled between one of the first or second output terminals and the at least one externally-accessible terminal; a termination inside the package, the termination operable to terminate a received signal; and a second electrical connector, not coupled to any of the externally-accessible terminals of the package, coupled between the other of the first or second output terminals and the termination and routed through the package alongside the first electrical connector for substantially an entire length of the first electrical connector.