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Article: California Inventors Develop Input, Output Terminal Sharing Apparatus
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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- September 21, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 21 -- Ross Voigt La Fetra and Sai V. Vishwanthaiah, both of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Rohit Kumar of San Jose, Calif., have developed an input/output terminal sharing method.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes at least a first and second compensation circuit that compensate for process, temperature, and other variable conditions that affect circuit performance. A compensation select circuit is coupled to selectively enable each of the first and second compensation circuits at respective first and second time periods to control a voltage on the input/output terminal to substantially equal a reference voltage and thereby ...