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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 28, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Craig B Greenberg, Rowlett, TX (US);
Jay A Maxey, Garland, TX (US);
Kevin M Ovens, Garland, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
372198 ; 327202 ; 327215 ; 327219 ; 327327 ; 327379 ; 327482 ;
Abstract
A flip-flop having a master section including two switching transistors is provided with output loading transistors to drive the two transistors into saturation in the event of a metastable condition causing input is present. By driving the switching transistors into saturation they become inactive and background noise cannot cause proprogation of the metastable condition to subsequent flip-flip stages.