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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 1997
Filed:
May. 24, 1995
John Atkinson Fifield, Underhill, VT (US);
Lawrence Griffith Heller, So. Burlington, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a Data Valid/Finish circuit element, an integrated circuit using the element, and a method of using the element. The circuit element, which may be incorporated in high speed, digital integrated circuit chips, has an input for receiving input from a data stream, and outputs. One of the outputs is an output true for generating a logical '1' when the input is a logical '1'. The other output is an output complementary means for generating a logical '1' when the input is a logical '0'. The system logically combines the outputs through an output finish/clock for receiving and combining the outputs of the output true and the output complementary. This generates a logical signal when the input from the data stream is either a logical '0' or a logical '1'.