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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 1992
Filed:
Feb. 22, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ahmed El-Amawy, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375107 ; 3701001 ;
Abstract
Global synchronization of an arbitrarily large computing structure, such that the clock skew between any two communicating cells is bounded by a constant, regardless of the size of the structure. The invention uses clock nodes to perform simple processing on clock signals. The clock signal is processed in a manner similar to that in which data signals are typically processed. A cyclic, or partially cyclic, network of the clock nodes, within certain topological constraints, along with timing constraints on the function of the clock nodes, maintains a constant bound on the skew.