US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Aug. 19 for "Level-shifter having a wide operating range, a fast output fall delay and improved rise time" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,175, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Level-shifter having a wide operating range, a fast output fall delay and improved rise time" was invented by Stefan P. Sywyk (San Jose, Calif.), Lalit Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jesse Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure introduces a level-shifter including a boost circuit that provides a "one-shot" pulse (a self-annihilating pulse) with the transitioning edge of the output signal. The pulse can be used to produce a faster output rise time and reduce the overall footprint of a level-shifter compared to conventional le...