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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:
Apr. 04, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 18, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Bruce Conrad Giamei, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
George Anthony Sai-Halasz, Mt. Kisco, NY (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3401462 ;
Abstract
A fully testable CMOS comparator circuit is disclosed having INV and NAND logic gates which form data paths for propagating data through the comparator circuit. The data propagated through the comparator circuit include greater-or-equal signals. The comparator is fully testable because there are no redundant circuit elements.