Low voltage pulser circuit for driving row-column conductor arrays of a gas discharge display capable of being made in integrated circuit form

Claim 1

An integrated circuit system for supplying sustaining voltages and discharge manipulating pulse voltages to one group of row conductors and one group of column conductors in a gas discharge device in which transversely oriented row and column conductors effecting discharges in the gas have dielectric charge-storage means, for charges produced on discharge, interposed between said row and column conductors and the gas, comprising in combination, at least a pair of monolithic semiconductor bodies, each processed to include a plurality of individual transistor switching circuits connected by conductors in circuit configurations described, hereinafter including a plurality of contact areas to which connections to and from said circuit configurations are made, each said circuit configuration being functionally identical, wherein: each circuit configuration translates a low level input pUlse signal voltage to a high level pulse signal voltage and feeding through a high level periodic signal voltage as said sustaining voltage, the output voltages from each circuit configuration being of opposite polarity, respectively, the improvements wherein: each said circuit configuration on one of said bodies including as means for translating low level pulse signal voltage to a high level pulse signal voltage a pair of complementary configured transistors formed in NPN PNP fashion to simulate a power PNP transistor, and each said circuit configuration on the other of said bodies including as means for translating low level pulse signal voltages to a high level pulse signal voltage a power NPN transistor.