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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2003
David W. Smith, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus are provided for trapping metastability events to provide a metastable-free output signal. At least three successive values of an input signal are latched successively over a predetermined period which is less than half of a fundamental period of the input signal to provide at least three corresponding latched values. First and second intermediate signals are activated when outputs of all of the at least three corresponding latched values are in respective first and second logic states. An output signal is placed in a first predetermined logic state in response to the second intermediate signal and is changed from the first predetermined logic state to a second predetermined logic state in response to the first intermediate signal.