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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:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
John C. Ciccone, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Bing L. Yup, Phoeniz, AZ (US);
Assignee:
VLSI Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/710 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/710 ;
Abstract
A method of designing a reset circuit for a digital integrated circuit (IC) layout is described. The reset circuit is designed with the intention of making it visually non-detectable in the digital IC layout by implementing the reset circuit entirely in digital elements and then using standardized digital layout cells and routing such that the reset circuit is essentially non-discernible from the digital circuitry of the IC device layout. In addition, circuit elements are designed using devices having dimensions that are essentially the same as typical digital devices in the digital IC layout.