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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2001
Filed:
May. 13, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Mattias Hansson, Lund, SE;
Assignee:
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm, SE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06M 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06M 3/00 ;
Abstract
A low power counter for cycling through a predetermined sequence of states in response to pulses on an input line includes a number of counter blocks, corresponding to the number of bits of the counter, connected in series. The low power counter blocks include memory devices consuming a minimum of power when they are disabled and activated only when the value of the respective data output connection has to be changed.