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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 1991
Filed:
May. 29, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kim H Eckert, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ; H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
377 28 ; 377 55 ; 377 56 ; 377111 ; 377114 ; 377116 ;
Abstract
An asynchronous ripple counter counts from a predetermined binary value to zero in response to an input clock signal. Zero detection logic is coupled to the ripple counter for detecting, from a most significant bit to a least significant bit of the ripple counter, when the counter has counted to zero. Both the counter and the zero detection logic receive and store the predetermined binary value. The monitoring of the ripple counter's digits from MSB to LSB prevents false detections of zero states in the ripple counter and allows the ripple counter to be extended to an arbitrarily large number of bits without sacrificing the maximum input clock frequency.