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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2006
John S. Austin, Winooski, VT (US);
Ram Kelkar, South Burlington, VT (US);
Pradeep Thiagarajan, South Burlington, VT (US);
John S. Austin, Winooski, VT (US);
Ram Kelkar, South Burlington, VT (US);
Pradeep Thiagarajan, South Burlington, VT (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Several latch circuits including a NAND gate stage and combinations of clocked inverter stages and inverter stages are described. A programmable frequency divider including homologue frequency divider circuits using the latch circuits is also described. Also described is a circuit included in the homologue frequency divides and a method for correcting the duty cycle of clock signals generated by the homologue frequency dividers to 50%.