Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas, PLLC
Input pad having an enable terminal employed in a low-current-consuming integrated circuit
 An input pad (4) is adapted to include a input signal terminal for receiving input signal (A), an enable terminal for receiving power-down signal (P-), and a logic gate (such as a NOR Boolean arithmetic unit) to perform logical arithmetic upon receiving the input signal (A) and the power-down signal (P-) from the input terminal and the enable terminal, respectively. Such input pad (A) is employed in a low-current consuming integrated circuit having a limited number of input pads for increasing the number of available input pads for receiving input signal thus increasing the process speed. 
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
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H03K
inventional
Heung-jig Jun-gu
Lee Kim