EP1330877A1 - Circuit d'aide a la commutation d'un circuit logique - Google Patents
Circuit d'aide a la commutation d'un circuit logiqueInfo
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- the present invention relates to the field of electronic circuits supplying or exploiting a logic signal.
- the present invention relates more particularly to the production of a fast logic circuit, performing a non-inverting function.
- This type of circuit is, for example, used to adapt the level of an input logic signal and is generally designated by its Anglo-Saxon designation "buffer".
- FIG. 1 represents the classic symbol of such a logic circuit.
- This circuit 1 has two supply terminals 2, 3 respectively connected to potentials VDD and GND, the latter generally representing ground.
- An input terminal 4 of circuit 1 receives a logic signal IN.
- Circuit 1 provides, on an output terminal 5, an OR signal having the same state as the input signal IN.
- FIG. 2 represents an example of the internal structure of a non-inverting logic circuit 1 in bipolar technology.
- This circuit essentially comprises two transistors TPI of the PNP type and TN1 of the NPN type.
- the TPI transistor constitutes the input transistor. Its base is connected to terminal 4 by an input resistance Rel.
- the emitter of the transistor TPI is connected, by a bias resistor Rpl to terminal 2 at the potential VDD.
- the collector of the transistor TPI is connected to the base of the transistor TN1.
- the emitter of the transistor TN1 is connected to the ground terminal 3.
- the collector of transistor TN1 constitutes the output terminal 5 of circuit 1 and is connected, by a resistor Rn, to terminal 2.
- circuit 1 In static, the operation of circuit 1 is as follows. If the input signal IN is low (GND ground), the TPI transistor is conductive. The transistor TN1 receives a base current. It is therefore also conductive, and the output signal OUT is also low. If the input signal is in the high state (for example, the potential VDD), the transistor TPI is blocked. No base current is supplied to the transistor TN1 which is therefore also blocked. The output signal OUT is then in the high state, a current flowing through the resistor Rn.
- FIGS. 3A and 3B illustrate, by timing diagrams, the operation of the circuit of FIG. 1 in dynamics.
- FIG. 3A shows an example of the shape of the input signal IN.
- FIG. 3B illustrates the corresponding shape of the output signal OUT.
- the signal IN is in the low state and that it switches to a high state (voltage VI) at an instant t1.
- the level of the signal IN can be different from the potential VDD provided that it is (neglecting the voltage drop in the resistor Rel) greater than VDD-VbeP, where VbeP represents the base-emitter voltage of the transistor TPI (approximately 0.6 V).
- VbeP represents the base-emitter voltage of the transistor TPI (approximately 0.6 V).
- the signal OUT takes a certain time to reach the high level (VDD by neglecting the voltage drop in the resistor Rn).
- the time for switching to the high state essentially depends on the time taken by the output transistor TNl to become desaturated. In fact, when the transistor TPI is blocked, charges remain accumulated in the base of the transistor TN1 and it takes a certain time to be removed by the leakage currents.
- the desaturation time of the transistor TN1 also depends on:
- a conventional solution to accelerate the rise time is to reduce the base current injected into the transistor TN1 when switching to the low state. For this, the gain of the TPI transistor is reduced or its polarization resistance Rpl is increased.
- the base current of the transistor TN1 must comply with the condition of being sufficient to allow its saturation, failing which the switching to the low state will not take place.
- a high base current allows rapid switching to the low state. Consequently, it is most often necessary to make a compromise which gives the switching times indicated above.
- Another solution is to provide an additional resistance between the base and the emitter of the transistor TN1.
- this solution has only a limited effect because the value of this resistance must continue to allow saturation of the transistor TN1 when switching to the low state. In addition, it generates additional consumption. In certain applications (for example, in applications where the input terminal is likely to remain in the air), it is generally desired to minimize the consumption of the circuit when the input is in the high state or is in the air. In the circuit of FIG. 2, this condition is met by the fact that, in the high state, the two transistors TPI and TNl are blocked, consumption is then limited to that of the resistor Rn.
- the present invention aims to overcome at least one of the drawbacks of a logic circuit performing a conventional non-inverting function.
- the invention aims, in particular, to improve the response time of such a logic circuit.
- the invention also aims to propose such a logic circuit generating no additional consumption when the input terminal is in the high state or is in the air.
- the invention further aims to propose a solution which is compatible with a low supply voltage (typically, less than 2 V).
- a low supply voltage typically, less than 2 V.
- the present invention aims to propose a circuit exploiting a logic signal to generate a voltage pulse of predetermined duration at the appearance of a slot of this logic signal.
- the invention aims more particularly to propose a circuit with low consumption, operating under low voltage and easily integrated.
- capacitors are used.
- a drawback is that these capacitors are difficult to integrate or, at the very least, occupy an important place in the integrated circuit.
- the present invention provides a switching circuit capable of generating a pulse on the appearance of a rising edge of a signal applied to an input terminal, comprising: a first bipolar NPN transistor, the emitter of which is connected to the input terminal; a second transistor, a control electrode of which is connected, by a first resistor, to the input terminal, the base of the first transistor being connected to a supply potential by the second transistor in series with a second resistor; and a third transistor connecting an output terminal of the switching circuit to a reference potential and a control electrode of which is connected to the collector of the first transistor.
- the first and second transistors are, at rest, conducting while the third transistor is, at rest, blocked.
- the duration of the pulse is regulated by the time taken by the second transistor to block through the base-collector junction of the first transistor biased live and temporarily turning on the third transistor.
- the first resistance participates in the adjustment of the duration of the pulse.
- the second transistor is a PNP type bipolar transistor.
- the third transistor is a bipolar NPN transistor.
- the invention also provides a logic circuit fulfilling a non-inverting function, comprising: a PNP type bipolar input transistor whose emitter is connected, by a bias resistor, to a terminal for applying a positive potential and the base of which is connected, by an input resistor, to a terminal for applying a logic signal; an NPN-type bipolar output transistor whose emitter is connected to a terminal for applying a potential reference, whose base is connected to the collector of the input transistor and whose collector constitutes an output terminal of the logic circuit connected, by an output resistor, to the terminal for applying the positive potential; and a switching circuit, the output terminal of which is connected to the base of the output transistor to accelerate the desaturation thereof, the input terminal of the switching circuit being connected to the input terminal of the logic circuit.
- the second resistor is connected between the first transistor and the terminal for applying the positive potential, the collector of the first transistor being directly connected to the base of the second transistor.
- the invention further provides a pulse generator from a voltage pulse applied to an input terminal, comprising a switching circuit whose output terminal constitutes an output terminal of the pulse generator connected, by a resistance, to a terminal of application of the more positive potential.
- a pulse generator from a voltage pulse applied to an input terminal, comprising a switching circuit whose output terminal constitutes an output terminal of the pulse generator connected, by a resistance, to a terminal of application of the more positive potential.
- the collector of the first transistor is connected to the base of the second transistor by the second resistor conditioning the duration of the pulse.
- FIG. 1 represents the symbol classic of a logic circuit to which the present invention applies according to its first aspect
- FIG. 2 represents the detailed electrical diagram of a conventional logic circuit performing a non-inverting function
- Figures 3A and 3B illustrate the operation of the conventional circuit of Figure 2
- FIG. 4 represents, partially in the form of a block, an embodiment of a logic circuit performing a non-inverting function according to the first aspect of the present invention
- FIG. 5 represents a first embodiment of a switching circuit according to the invention
- FIG. 6 represents the detailed electrical diagram of an embodiment of the logic circuit of FIG. 4
- FIGS. 1 represents the symbol classic of a logic circuit to which the present invention applies according to its first aspect
- FIG. 2 represents the detailed electrical diagram of a conventional logic circuit performing a non-inverting function
- Figures 3A and 3B illustrate the operation of the conventional circuit of Figure 2
- FIG. 4 represents, partially in the form of a block, an embodiment of a logic circuit performing a non-inverting function according to the first
- FIG. 7A to 71 illustrate, by timing diagrams, the dynamic operation of the circuit of FIG. 6;
- FIG. 8 represents a second embodiment of a switching circuit according to the invention;
- FIG. 9 shows an embodiment of a pulse generation circuit according to the second aspect of the present invention;
- FIGS. 10A and 10B illustrate, in the form of timing diagrams, the operation of the circuit of FIG. 9.
- the same elements have been designated by the same references in the different figures. For reasons of clarity, the timing diagrams of Figures 3, 7 and 10 are not to scale.
- FIG. 4 represents a logic circuit 10 performing a non-inverting function according to the first aspect of the present invention.
- such a logic circuit 10 has two supply terminals 2, 3.
- Terminal 2 is connected to a more positive potential VDD.
- Terminal 3 is connected to a more negative GND potential, for example, ground.
- An input terminal 4 is intended to receive a logic signal IN.
- An output terminal 5 is intended to supply a logic signal OUT corresponding to the input signal IN.
- an output branch of circuit 10 comprises, in series between terminals 2 and 3, a resistor Rn and a bipolar transistor TNl NPN type. The emitter of the transistor TN1 is connected to the ground terminal 3. Its collector is connected to the terminal 5.
- the base of the transistor TN1 is, as previously, connected to the collector of a TPI transistor of PNP type whose emitter is connected, by a bias resistor Rpl, to terminal 2.
- the base of the transistor TPI is connected, by an input resistor Rel, to terminal 4. All the above structure corresponds to the electrical diagram of a conventional circuit ( 1, figure 2).
- a feature of the present invention is to provide a switching circuit 20 to force the desaturation of the output transistor TN1 and thus assist in the switching of the logic circuit 10.
- the circuit 20 essentially comprises a switch K connecting the base of the transistor TN1 to the ground 3 and a circuit 21 for controlling this switch K.
- the circuit 21 includes a control terminal CTRL which is connected to the input terminal 4 of the circuit 10 receiving the logic signal to be processed.
- the role of the control circuit 21 is to generate a closing pulse of the switch K on each rising edge of the input signal IN.
- Impulse control has several advantages.
- FIG. 5 represents a first embodiment of a switching circuit 20 according to the invention.
- the control circuit 21 consists of a transistor TP2 of the PNP type and a transistor TN2 of the NPN type.
- the emitter of transistor TP2 is connected to potential VDD by a bias resistor Rp2.
- the base of transistor TP2 is connected, by a resistor Re2, to the input or control terminal CTRL of circuit 21.
- the collector of transistor TP2 is connected to the base of transistor TN2.
- the emitter of transistor TN2 is connected to terminal CTRL and its collector delivers the output signal of block 21.
- switch K consists of a transistor TN3 of NPN type, the base of which is connected to the collector of transistor TN2 and whose emitter is connected to GND ground.
- the collector of transistor TN3 constitutes an output terminal 22 of the switching circuit 20.
- Figure 6 shows the detailed electrical diagram of such a circuit.
- the input terminal 4 is connected to the resistors Rel and Re2 as well as to the emitter of the transistor TN2.
- Terminal 22 of circuit 20 (collector of transistor TN3) is connected to the collector of transistor TPI and to the base of transistor TN1.
- the emitter of transistor TN3 is connected to terminal 3 and the resistor Rp2 is connected to terminal 2.
- the mounting of transistor TP2 is similar to that of transistor TPI.
- TPI is then blocked.
- the transistor TN1 cannot receive any base current and is therefore also blocked.
- the OUT signal is then high.
- the transistor TP2 is blocked.
- the transistor TN2 receives no basic current and is therefore also blocked, as is the transistor TN3. This results in an absence of consumption in the control circuit 20 when the circuit is, statically, in the high state.
- the consumption of the overall circuit is then limited to the consumption in the resistor Rn. This respects the consumption of a conventional logic circuit of this type ( Figure 2).
- the input IN is in the low state.
- the TPI transistor in static, the TPI transistor is on.
- the transistor TP2 On the switching circuit 20 side, the transistor TP2 is polarized to be conductive.
- the base-emitter junction of the transistor TN2 is forward biased and receives a base current.
- no current can be taken from the collector of transistor TN2 (the base of transistor TN3), its collector-emitter voltage is minimal (a few tens of mV). Consequently, the low level is substantially transferred to the base of the transistor TN3, which confirms its blocking.
- the switch TN3 As the switch TN3 is open, the transistor TN1 is made conductive by switching on the transistor TPI.
- the output 5 is therefore in the low state. In the low state, the consumption of the logic circuit corresponds to the dissipation in the polarization resistors
- FIGS. 7A to 71 illustrate, by timing diagrams, the dynamic operation of the circuit of FIG. 6 during a switching of the input signal IN from the low state to the state high.
- FIG. 7A represents the shape of the input voltage IN.
- FIGS. 7A represents the shape of the input voltage IN.
- FIGS. 7B to 7H represent the shapes of the currents Ibl, Ib2, Ic2, Ib3, Id, Ici and Ie2 in, respectively, the base of the transistor TPI, the base of the transistor TP2, the collector of the transistor TP2 (therefore the base of the transistor TN2), the base of transistor TN3 (therefore the collector of transistor TN2), the base of transistor TN1, the collector of transistor TPI and the emitter of transistor TN2.
- Figure 71 shows the shape of the output voltage OUT. The directions taken for the tracing of the currents in FIGS. 7B to 7H are identified in FIG. 6.
- the IN and OUT signals are low.
- the transistors TPI, TP2, TN1 and TN2 are therefore on. Consequently, positive base currents Ibl, Ib2 and Id flow in the transistors TPI and TP2 (leaving the bases) and in the transistor TN1 (entering the base). Collector currents Here and Ic2 positive flow in the transistors TPI and TP2 (leaving the collectors). Finally, a positive emitter current (exiting the emitter) flows through the transistor TN2.
- a switching of the signal IN is assumed from an instant t10.
- the switching of the signal IN lasts until an instant tll when the voltage reaches the high level (for example, VDD).
- the interval t10-t11 is generally of the order of 0.1 ⁇ s.
- the base currents Ibl and Ib2 decrease until reaching negative values II and 12 where the transistors TPI and TP2 are in desaturation.
- the values II and 12 depend on the sizes of the transistors and the values of the resistances • Rel and Re2, respectively.
- the durations (instants tll to tl2 and tll to tl3, respectively) during which the values II and 12 are maintained depend on the time taken by the transistors TPI and TP2 to desaturate.
- the base currents Ibl and Ib2 tend towards zero. They cancel each other at times tl4 and tl5 when the transistors TPI and TP2 are blocked respectively.
- Transistor TP2 side its blocking is accompanied by an evacuation of the charges from its collector, therefore a decrease in its collector current. These charges are evacuated through the base-collector junction of transistor TN2 which is forward biased. Indeed, the transistor TN3 being initially blocked, its base (therefore the collector of the transistor TN2) is at a potential lower than approximately 0.6 V. However, as long as the transistor TP2 is not blocked, the base of the transistor TN2 is pulled towards the potential VDD (neglecting the voltage drop in the resistor Rp2).
- the current which is then injected into the base of the transistor TN3 is sufficient to make it passing at an instant tl6 very close to the instant tlO (for example, a few tens of nanoseconds after the instant tlO).
- the transistor TN3 being on, the base of the transistor TNl and the collector of the transistor TPI are drawn to ground.
- the transistor TN1 this results in a brutal desaturation during which its base current Id becomes very negative until an instant t17 when it is canceled, all the charges having been removed.
- the TPI transistor this results in a reduction in the shape of its collector current.
- the charges of the collector of the transistor TPI are discharged through the base of the transistor TN1, therefore relatively slowly. From the instant tl6, the collector current increases strongly until reaching, at the instant tl7, a maximum value 13.
- the value 13 depends on the gain of the transistor TPI and on the value II of its base current.
- the transistor TN3 absorbs the desaturation of the transistor TPI, but the transistor TNl is blocked. Consequently, the voltage OUT begins to increase until an instant tl ⁇ when it reaches the level VDD.
- the collector current remains at the value 13 until time tl2, then decreases to cancel out at time tl4 when all the charges of the collector have been removed.
- the time interval tl7-tl8 is independent of the circuit of the invention. It depends on the load connected to terminal 5. In the applications of the invention, the interval tl7-tl8 is generally less than the microsecond. On the other hand, while in a conventional circuit the desaturation of the transistor TN1 takes approximately 1 ⁇ s, this duration is, thanks to the invention, reduced to a few tens of nanoseconds (less than 0.1 ⁇ s). This duration is adjusted by the value of the resistance Re2. The transistor TN3 remains on as long as the transistor
- TP2 is not blocked, that is to say as long as it has not absorbed, by its base, all the charges of the collector of transistor TP2. From the instant tl5, the transistor TN3 is blocked, no more current being able to be injected into it on the base. Between instants tlO and tl6, the emitter current
- Ie2 of transistor TN2 goes from a positive value 14 to a very low negative value (leakage current in the base-emitter junction reverse biased), then decreases from time tl3 until it is canceled out at instant tl5.
- the value 14 corresponds substantially to the value of the current Ic2 discharged by
- the current Ic2 decreases from the value 14 to a value 16, before being canceled between the instants tl3 and tl5.
- the value 16 depends on the gain of the transistor TP2 and on the value 12.
- the conduction time of the transistor TN3 essentially depends on the time it takes for the transistor TP2 to become desaturated in the transistor TN2. Consequently, this duration depends on the size of the transistor TP2 (on its emitter surface) and on its saturation level, therefore on the value of the resistance Re2. In the dimensioning of the circuit, it will be ensured that the transistor TP2 takes longer to block than the transistor TPI. Otherwise, there is a risk of returning the transistor TN1 to the blocking of the transistor TN3.
- the resistor Re2 can be dimensioned so that it corresponds to twice the value of the resistor Rel.
- the transistor TPI When the input signal switches from the high state to the low state, the transistor TPI is turned on (saturated) in a conventional manner. As the transistor TN3 is blocked, the transistor TN1 is turned on. The switching speed is not altered by the implementation of the invention. Conversely, as we can now quickly desaturate the TNl transistor, we can increase the base current to make it pass and thus also increase the switching from high to low state.
- the transistor TP2 is suitably biased to be on, as is the transistor TN2. However, since the transistor TN2 cannot draw basic current from the transistor TN3, the blocking of the transistor TN3 is confirmed.
- the minimum supply voltage of the circuit is fixed by the maximum voltage between the sum of base-collector voltages of transistor TN1 and collector-emitter of transistor TPI and the sum of base-emitter voltages of transistor TN2, collector-emitter of transistor TP2 and level IN in the low state.
- transistor TP2 assumes that the input terminal 4 is connected to a current output type circuit (open collector).
- the particular mounting of the transistor TP2 constitutes a precaution not to favor the parasitic thyristor which it forms with the transistor TN2. In the case where terminal 4 is connected to a circuit having a voltage output, this problem does not arise because the potentials are imposed. We can therefore reverse the transistor TP2 (emitter connected at the base of transistor TN2 and collector connected to resistor Rp2).
- An advantage of the present invention according to its first aspect is that it considerably increases the switching speed of the non-inverting logic circuit.
- Another advantage of the invention is that this speed is obtained, neither to the detriment of consumption, nor to the detriment of the supply voltage.
- an advantage of the switching circuit of the invention is that it constitutes an integratable solution for generating pulses of predetermined duration.
- FIG. 8 represents a second embodiment of a switching circuit 20 ′ according to the invention. This embodiment differs from that of FIG. 5 essentially by the use of an MOS transistor to make the switch K. It is a P channel MOS P3 transistor whose gate is connected to the collector of the TN2 bipolar transistor. A resistor R3 connects the gate of the MOS transistor P3 to its source connected to ground to serve as a current-voltage converter, to make the transistor P3 temporarily passing through the desaturation of the transistor TN2.
- bipolar technology constitutes a preferred embodiment of the invention because it is less expensive and is less sensitive to electromagnetic disturbances.
- FIG. 9 represents the electrical diagram of a pulse generator circuit 30 according to a second aspect of the invention.
- the switching circuit of the invention is here used to generate a pulse, on an output terminal 31, at each rising edge of a logic signal introduced on an input terminal 32.
- the generator 30 there is the transistor TN2, the base of which is connected to the transistor TN3, the collector of which supplies the pulse signal and the emitter of which is connected to the ground terminal 3.
- the base of transistor TN2 is connected to transistor TP2 by a resistor Rd.
- the emitter of transistor TP2 is here directly connected to terminal 2 for applying the supply voltage VDD.
- the base of the transistor TP2 is connected, by the resistor Re2, to the input terminal 32.
- the collector of the transistor TN3 is connected to the terminal 2 by a resistor R3.
- the stage R3-TN3 of the circuit 30 is reproduced on an output branch forming an inverter. Consequently, the collector of the transistor TN3 is connected to the base of a transistor TN4 of the NPN type.
- the emitter of transistor TN4 is connected to terminal 3. Its collector is connected to terminal 31 and, by a resistor R4, to terminal 2.
- FIGS. 10A and 10B represent, in the form of timing diagrams, an example of generation of a pulse on the basis of a change of state of a signal. VIN input.
- the transistor TP2 is on, its base being grounded.
- the transistor TN2 is therefore also on which guarantees the blocking of the transistor TN3.
- the transistor TN4 is therefore on.
- the state of output 31 is low (signal VOUT, FIG. 10B).
- the signal VIN (FIG. 10A) applied to terminal 32 goes from the low state to the high state (VDD).
- the transistor TP2 is blocked by disappearance of its base-emitter voltage.
- the transistor TN2 the transmitter of which also receives the signal Vin, also blocks.
- the base-collector junction of the transistor TN2 is then used to desaturate the transistor TP2 in the resistance Rd. This makes the transistor TN3 conductive and blocks the transistor TN4.
- the output switches to high state. This state is maintained for the time necessary for the desaturation of the transistor TP2.
- the pulse generator of the invention only generates a pulse on the rising edges of the input signal.
- the transistor TN3 remains blocked on the appearance of a falling edge (instant t22).
- the duration of the pulse generated depends on the saturation of the transistor TP2 which is a function of the value of the resistance Re2. The higher this value, the lower the saturation and the shorter the desaturation time.
- Resistor Rd is used to limit the collector current of transistor TP2. It therefore also participates in the duration of the output pulse.
- a generator according to the invention can be dimensioned, while remaining integrable, for a pulse duration of approximately 10 ⁇ s.
- the transistor TP2 can be replaced by a MOS transistor with P channel to slow the desaturation, provided always to use a bipolar transistor whose base-collector junction is used to temporarily turn the desaturation switch of the transistor Release.
- An advantage of the pulse generator illustrated in FIG. 9 is that it avoids the use of capacitors to generate a pulse from a voltage pulse. Even with a resistance Re2 of the order of a hundred iloohms, the space occupied is less than that of a capacitor of the order of 10 picofarads which it would be necessary to provide for obtaining a pulse of a few microseconds.
- pulse generator of the invention consumes little. In its idle state, consumption is essentially linked to the emitter current of transistor TN2, therefore a function of the value of resistance Rd providing the base current of this transistor. The current in the resistor Re2 is negligible because it corresponds to the base current of the transistor TP2.
- the consumption of the generator of the invention is very low compared to, for example, that of a monostable circuit which constitutes another conventional means for generating pulses.
- the present invention is susceptible of various variants and modifications which will appear to one skilled in the art.
- the dimensioning of the transistors and resistors is within the reach of those skilled in the art from the functional indications given above and from the application.
- the invention has been explained in relation to the generation of positive pulses, its transposition to a generation of negative pulses is within the reach of those skilled in the art.
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