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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:
Mar. 21, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
John D Provence, Mesquite, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710 58 ; 326 46 ; 326 93 ; 327155 ;
Abstract
An asynchronous latch including a finite state machine (301) and a level-sensitive latch (304) in a feedback path of the finite state machine. The input to the level-sensitive latch (304) is a signal generated by decoding the state of the finite state machine (301). The level-sensitive latch output is fed back to the finite state machine inputs to control next-state transitions. An asynchronous input line couples an asynchronous signal to the level-sensitive latch so that the asynchronous signal is used as a latching signal.