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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/00 ;
Abstract
A clock splitter device for forming a clock/inverted clock signal pair. The input clock signal is sent through an initial buffer stage and applied to two parts of a second stage. The second stage includes a single stage buffer and constricted inverter to provide two inverted outputs. The transistor arrangement of these two parts provides an equal delay to the two signal paths. The outputs of these two parts are sent to identical output buffers. Because the two paths have identical transistor delays, and since the metal paths on the board are arranged to have identical delays, the two paths can very low skew therebetween.