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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 1994
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Digital Equipment International Limited, Fribourg, CH;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; H03K / ; H03K / ; H03L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375109 ; 307269 ; 328 63 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for improving the performance of the transferring of transaction handshakes between sections of synchronous logic which are in different timing domains providing immunity from set-up and hold violations and associated problems of metastability, by reducing the time overhead required for signal synchronization.