LINE TERMINATION CIRCUIT

摘要

Disclosed is a termination circuit having a wide range of stable operation and a low power consumption. Conventionally, current flows in a termination when the signal in the transmission is not changing, which is wasteful of power. Attempts have been made to solve this by using circuits where no current flows through the termination when the signal in the transmission line does not change. However because of the characteristics of the circuits used, instability occurs during the transition from one state to the other state. The termination disclosed overcomes this by having complementary inverters having differing input/output characteristics.