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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
John S Austin, Winooski, VT (US);
Ram Kelkar, South Burlington, VT (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
327117 ; 377 52 ; 377107 ;
Abstract
A programmable, self-resetting divider includes a modified Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) counter that starts in an initial state and increments through a count range. The self-resetting divider also includes a reset circuit that detects a pre-selected final state of the modified LFSR counter, provides an output signal in response to the detecting of the final state, and provides a reset signal to the modified LFSR counter in response to the detecting of the final state.