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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2010
Applicants:
Fabian Firmin, Saint-Martin D'heres, FR;
Sylvain Clerc, Grenoble, FR;
Jean-pierre Schoellkopf, Grenoble, FR;
Fady Abouzeid, Grenoble, FR;
Inventors:
Fabian Firmin, Saint-Martin D'heres, FR;
Sylvain Clerc, Grenoble, FR;
Jean-Pierre Schoellkopf, Grenoble, FR;
Fady Abouzeid, Grenoble, FR;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics SA, Montrouge, FR;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/289 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A flip-flop may include a first master stage for latching data, a second slave stage for latching data, and an input multiplexer circuit receiving, as input, data to be latched in the flip-flop. The multiplexer may have single clock phase. The first master stage may be clocked based upon a clock phase, whereas the second stage may be clocked based upon another clock phase.