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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 1995
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1993
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A clock signal conditioning circuit (100) for use in a smart card (102) has an input node (112) for receiving an applied clock signal, an output node (126) for producing a conditioned clock signal, a rising/falling edge detector (118) for detecting edges in the received clock signal, a bistable device (122) for forming at the output node a clock signal in response to the edge detector, and a timer (120, 124) for inhibiting switching of the bistable device for a predetermined time (T) following detection by the edge detector of an edge. Such a clock signal conditioning circuit provides a conditioned clock signal which is substantially independent of variations in the duty cycle of the applied clock signal and is substantially immune to glitches in the applied clock signal.