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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 16, 1995
Seokjin Kim, Amherst, NY (US);
Ramalingam Sridhar, East Amherst, NY (US);
Research Foundation of State University of New York, Albany, NY (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to the design and operation of local clock control circuits which operate to supply a local clock signal to a controlled block of a digital circuit in response to an enable signal representative of an enable condition. The invention is embodied in several alternative local clock control circuits which comprise a signal joining means or a signal joining means in combination with an enable signal relay means. The signal joining characteristics of the Muller C-element are used advantageously in several embodiments. The invention serves to ease constraints on the arrival time of an enable signal at the local clock control circuit.