Patent ID: 7196546

Claim:
A circuit comprising: a static low-swing driver circuit to receive a full-swing input signal, to convert the full-swing input signal to a low-swing signal, and to transmit the low-swing signal, the driver circuit comprising: an input line to receive the full-swing input signal; an inverter coupled to a supply voltage, the input line coupled to an input of the inverter; a delay element coupled to the supply voltage, the input line coupled to an input of the delay element, and a propagation delay associated with the delay element matching a propagation delay associated with the inverter; a first transistor, a gate of the first transistor coupled to an output of the inverter and a drain of the transistor coupled to a first voltage, the first voltage less than the supply voltage; a second transistor, a gate of the second transistor coupled to an output of the delay element and a drain of the second transistor coupled to a source of the first transistor at an output node; and an output line coupled to the output node, the output line to transmit the low-swing signal; and a dynamic receiver circuit to receive the low-swing signal and to convert the low-swing signal to a full-swing signal.