Patent ID: 7212038

Claim:
A line driver including at least one driver stage, the at least one driver stage comprising: a first pair of transistors differentially driven as a function of data to be transmitted, the first pair of transistors configured to generate an impulse for a transmission line, a second pair of transistors associated with the first pair of transistors and configured to generate a replica impulse that corresponds to the impulse generated by the first pair of transistors, wherein the second pair of transistors are switched in a synchronous manner with respect to the first pair of transistors, the first pair of transistors and the second pair of transistors configured to receive the same drive signals, and a control circuit configured to generate the drive signals in the form of first and second differential control signals, a first differential control signal provided to a transistor of the first pair of transistors and a transistor of the second pair of transistors, and a second differential control signal provided to the other transistor of the first pair of transistors and the other transistor of the second pair of transistors.