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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2003
Applicant:
Inventors:
Zhubiao Zhu, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Kenneth Koch, II, Fort Collins, CO (US);
J Robert Sims, III, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/017 ; H03K 5/04 ; H03K 7/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/017 ; H03K 5/04 ; H03K 7/08 ;
Abstract
A method and system for sampling on the fly one or more integrated circuit nodes coupled to one or more bus domain clocks of an integrated circuit using minimal clock cycle delay synchronization. Sample on the fly circuitry, set-reset circuitry and metastable rejection circuitry are used to provide a sufficient pulse width for sampling on the fly the one or more nodes when the one or more bus domain clocks require asynchronous operation. The sample on the fly circuitry is also operable to synchronously sample on the fly the one or more nodes.