Patent ID: 7817727

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a differential node; a driver circuit configured to generate a signal on the differential node, the driver circuit comprising: a first circuit portion configured to generate a first signal on the differential node based, at least in part, on a data signal, the first signal having a voltage swing based, at least in part, on a voltage on a power supply node; and at least a second circuit portion configured to generate a current through the differential node based, at least in part, on a first bit-time of the data signal and an equalization operation, thereby adjusting the voltage swing of the signal, wherein the first bit-time of the data signal is a present bit-time of the data signal and the current is based, at least in part, on the first bit-time and at least a second bit-time of the data signal, the at least a second bit-time of the data signal including at least one of a bit-time of the data signal prior to the first bit-time and a bit-time of the data signal subsequent to the first bit-time.