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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 1991
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1989
Norman T Rollins, Plantation, FL (US);
Gianfranco Gerosa, Austin, TX (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A master-slave flip-flop having a first bistable cell and a control circuit coupled to that first cell for changing the binary state of the cell in response to a set of complementary data inputs and a clock signal. The slave portion of the flip-flop includes a second bistable cell that is coupled to the first cell and a second control circuit for changing the state of the second cell in response to the output of the first cell and to a clock signal. The flip-flop is intended to be implemented using CMOS technology, and is capable of performing at frequencies greater than a gigahertz with low power consumption. The circuit configuration is highly symmetric, so that the master and slave portions may be interchanged.