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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2010
Applicant:
Miaosong Wu, Shanghai, CN;
Inventor:
Miaosong Wu, Shanghai, CN;
Assignee:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsin-Chu, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/289 (2006.01); H03K 3/037 (2006.01); G01R 31/3185 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/0375 (2013.01); H03K 3/0372 (2013.01); G01R 31/318541 (2013.01);
Abstract
In accordance with an embodiment, an integrated circuit comprises a master-slave flip-flop, a selection logic circuit, and a pass structure. The selection logic circuit is configured to selectively enable or disable one or more clock signals. The pass structure is configured to pass a data signal to the master-slave flip-flop in response to a selected clock signal being enabled.