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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:
Jul. 04, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 10, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Tritech Microelectronics, Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
713300 ; 327143 ; 307-3 ;
Abstract
A circuit and a method are disclosed for a power start-up reset circuit which is self-timing and which can be fully integrated in a standard CMOS or BiCMOS process along with other digital circuits. The circuit provides a system reset signal which is issued only after all circuit have stabilized by making the issuance of this system reset signal dependent on an oscillator becoming stable and a subsequent count of a fixed number of system clock cycles derived from that oscillator.