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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2004
Applicant:
Ronald Pasqualini, Los Altos, CA (US);
Inventor:
Ronald Pasqualini, Los Altos, CA (US);
Assignee:
National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/173 (2006.01); H03K 19/0175 (2006.01); G06F 7/38 (2006.01); H01L 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The power dissipation, logic complexity and chip area of a thermometer controller are all significantly reduced by utilizing a series of scan flip-flops that are connected together to form a bi-directional shift register, along with a gated clock signal that clocks the series of scan flip-flops.