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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:
Nov. 16, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Weiyuen Kau, Dallas, TX (US);
James J Walsh, Plano, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395555 ; 395560 ;
Abstract
An electronic system (100) includes a register (TONTOFF) for data and a clock circuit (2340, 708) coupled to the register and responsive to the data in the register to generate a series of clock pulses (CPU.sub.-- CLK). The series of clock pulses occupies time intervals (2550) interspersed with time intervals free of clock pulses (2552), as an output having a ratio of the time intervals responsive to the data. Other devices, systems and methods are also disclosed.