The disclosed invention provides a reduction of voltage noise or bounce in
logic chips and does so in a practical way without requiting additional
circuit elements that impact on circuit performance or speed. Broadly this
reduction in voltage bounce is achieved by forcing the unused Input/Output
(I/O) circuits, i.e., those chips not being activated, to serve as
alterative paths to the voltage power supply used by the switching
circuits. More particularly this is accomplished this by grouping the I/O
points on the chips into logical, functional units such as data buses,
control lines, the I/O points on switched circuits, i.e., those switched
at high frequency and the I/O points on static circuits, i.e.,
non-switched and interconnecting and using the I/O points on the static
circuits and the power supply drives coupled thereto as alternate pats to
the power supply used by the switched circuits. In this way the inductance
in the switched power supplies can be substantially reduced such that
voltage bounce in the circuit is substantially reduced without adversely
impacting on circuit speed.