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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2009
Tino Copani, Riposto, IT;
Santo Alessandro Smerzi, Catania, IT;
Giovanni Girlando, Catania, IT;
Giuseppe Palmisano, San Giovanni La Punta, IT;
Tino Copani, Riposto, IT;
Santo Alessandro Smerzi, Catania, IT;
Giovanni Girlando, Catania, IT;
Giuseppe Palmisano, San Giovanni La Punta, IT;
STMicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;
Abstract
A prescaling stage includes bistable circuit in turn including respective master and slave portions inserted between a first and a second voltage reference and feedback connected to each other. Each portion is provided with at least one differential stage supplied by the first voltage reference and connected, by a transistor stage, to the second voltage reference, as well as a differential pair of cross-coupled transistors, supplied by output terminals of the differential stage and connected, by the transistor stage, to the second voltage reference. Advantageously, each master and slave portion includes a degeneration capacitance inserted in correspondence with respective terminals of the transistors of the differential pair.