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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024
Filed:
May. 31, 2022
Applicant:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD., Hsinchu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/099 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/0992 (2013.01);
Abstract
A counter signal counting at a frequency of a clock signal is generated. Among a plurality of different numeric ranges corresponding to a plurality of different thresholds, a threshold corresponding to a numeric range containing a frequency ratio is selected. In response to the counter signal reaching the selected threshold, a logic level of an output signal is switched.