Patent ID: 7427878

Claim:
A low-voltage differential signal (LVDS) driver, comprising: a high speed component comprising a first set of two or more programmable fingers; a low speed component comprising a second set of two or more programmable fingers; a plurality of pre-drivers, each pre-driver associated with a programmable finger of either the high speed component or the low speed component and operable to enable or disable the associated programmable finger, an enabled programmable finger driving a signal and contributing to capacitive loading of the driver, and a disabled programmable finger not driving the signal and not contributing to the capacitive loading of the driver; wherein the drivers are configured to enable the programmable fingers of the high speed component to drive the signal at a high speed; wherein the drivers are configured to enable the programmable fingers of the high speed component and the programmable fingers of the low speed component to drive the signal at a low speed to contribute to the capacitive loading of the driver.