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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2003
Applicants:
Luc Wuidart, Pourrieres, FR;
Claude Anguille, Aix en Provence, FR;
Inventors:
Luc Wuidart, Pourrieres, FR;
Claude Anguille, Aix en Provence, FR;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics S.A., Montrouge, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K023/66 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An increasing monotonic counter over n bits formed as an integrated circuit, including an assembly of 2−(n+2) irreversible counting cells distributed in at least n groups of 2−1 counting cells, where p designates the group rank, and at least n−1 parity calculators, each calculator providing a bit of rank p, increasing from the most significant bit of the result count, taking into account the states of the cells of the group of same rank.