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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2016
Applicant:
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Markus Regner, Graefelfing, DE;
Thomas H. Luedeke, Oberbergkirchen, DE;
Harald Michael Lüpken, Zorneding, DE;
Assignee:
NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/00 (2006.01); H03K 17/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/22 (2013.01);
Abstract
Transistor-based semiconductor devices, such as systems on chips, may be supplemented with a reset request mechanism to prevent a reset from causing the semiconductor device to enter into an uncertain, or fail, state. More particularly, a method or mechanism may modify a requested reset for a semiconductor device based on a state of the semiconductor device to prevent the semiconductor device from entering an uncertain, an undesired, or a failed state when the reset is effected with regard to the semiconductor device.