Patent ID: 7161869

Claim:
A transmission device for generating a signal pair from a data signal according to a switching rule depending on a switching signal value, comprising: a first data signal input for receiving a first data signal; a first switching signal input for receiving a first switching signal; a first signal output for outputting a first signal; a first complementary signal output for outputting a first complementary signal, wherein the first signal and the first complementary signal form a first signal pair; and a unit for precharging the first signal pair to a defined precharge state, wherein the device for generating a signal pair is formed to output, according to the switching rule, the first data signal as the first signal and a complementary first data signal as the first complementary signal, when the first switching signal has a first value, and to output the first data signal as the first complementary signal and the complementary first data signal as the first signal, when the first switching signal has a second value.