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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2014
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Suvam Nandi, Bangalore, IN;
Badarish Mohan Subbannavar, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/356 (2006.01); H03K 3/012 (2006.01); H03K 3/3562 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/012 (2013.01); H03K 3/35606 (2013.01); H03K 3/35625 (2013.01);
Abstract
A flip-flop is disclosed that utilizes low area. The flip-flop includes a tri-state inverter that receive a flip-flop input, a clock input and an inverted clock input. A master latch receives an output of the tri-state inverter. The master latch includes a common inverter. A slave latch is coupled to the master latch. The common inverter is shared between the master latch and the slave latch. An output inverter is coupled to the common inverter and generates a flip-flop output.