US Patent 9455713 Split resistor source-series terminated driver

A Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) is described with improved transmitter driver architecture. The transmitter driver architecture consumes significantly less power than other transmitter driver architectures as most of the circuits are driven by a low power supply. Furthermore, there is no need for level shifting even though the transmitter driver architecture is capable of supporting over as 1V of differential peak-to-peak voltage across the communication channel.