US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 30 for "Glitch preventing input/output circuits" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,891, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Glitch preventing input/output circuits" was invented by Tsung-Hsin Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Nick Pai (Taichung, Taiwan) and Bo-Ting Chen (Fengyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuits and methods for preventing glitch in a circuit are disclosed. In one example, a circuit coupled to an input/output pad is disclosed. The circuit includes: a first level shifter, a second level shifter, and a control logic circuit. The first level shifter is configured for generating a data signal. The second level shifter is configured ...