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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2013
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Omid Rajaee, San Diego, CA (US);
Dinesh J Alladi, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure includes circuits and methods for latching signals. In one embodiment, two inverters are configured back to back to latch a signal. Each inverter includes a capacitor configured between control terminals of inverter transistors. In one embodiment, the circuit is part of a comparator. First and second voltages are received on control terminals of differential transistors, and a differential output signal is coupled to two back to back inverters. In one embodiment, a circuit is disabled and a voltage on a control terminal of a transistor in an inverter is set below a reference, such as a power supply, to increase the speed of the circuit.