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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 18, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Vittorio Masina, Corporeno, IT;
Assignee:
SGS Mircroelettronica SpA, Catania, IT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364900 ;
Abstract
A digital retiming circuit for synchronizing a pulse signal with a local clock aligns incoming pulse signals with the local clock using a fully digital technique. The incoming signal is stored in a storage circuit which is disabled until the pulse signal has gone low before rising again. The output of the storage circuit is used to trigger a flip-flop, whose output is converted into a signal aligned with the local clock by means of a cascade of inverters and transfer gates enabled by the local clock. A trigger circuit resets the flip-flop in step with the clock whenever the incoming pulse signal is low.