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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2013
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Wu-Hsin Chen, San Diego, CA (US);

Li Liu, San Diego, CA (US);

Jianyun Hu, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/00 (2006.01); H03K 3/027 (2006.01); H03K 3/037 (2006.01); H03K 3/017 (2006.01); H01L 21/8238 (2006.01); H03K 3/356 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/017 (2013.01); H01L 21/823871 (2013.01); H03K 3/356121 (2013.01); H03K 3/356139 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one example, a high-speed divider includes two identical pseudo-CML latches and four output inverters. Each latch includes a pair of cross-coupled signal holding transistors. A first P-channel pull-up circuit pulls up on a second output node QB of the latch. A second P-channel pull-up circuit pulls up on a first output node Q of the latch. A pull-down circuit involves four N-channel transistors. This pull-down circuit: 1) couples the QB node to ground when a clock signal CK is high and a data signal D is high, 2) couples the Q node to ground when CK is high and D is low, 3) prevents a transfer of charge between the QB and Q nodes through the pull-down circuit when D transitions during a time period when CK is low, and 4) decouples the QB and Q nodes from the pull-down circuit when CK is low.


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