Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Signal converting – shaping – or generating – Synchronizing
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-01
2006-08-01
Callahan, Timothy P. (Department: 2816)
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Signal converting, shaping, or generating
Synchronizing
C327S142000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07084679
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus, a method, and a computer program product are provided for producing a synchronous divider reset signal. A notorious concern with multiple non-integer frequency ratio synchronous source clocks has been the time of edge alignment between the respective clocks. To address this concern, a number of latches can be utilized in order to detect alignment of the edges of these clocks. Specifically, the latches are employed to assist in the production of a synchronous divider reset signal for downstream dividers that are utilized in many microprocessors today. Hence, all of the downstream dividers can be properly synchronized to alleviate any errors that can occur between respective macros of a microprocessor chip resulting from misalignment of clock edges.
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Hartfiel John Wayne
Panchal Neil Ambalal
Callahan Timothy P.
Carr LLP
Gerhardt Diana R.
Luu An T.
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