Electronic digital logic circuitry – Clocking or synchronizing of logic stages or gates
Patent
1995-09-29
1998-01-06
Westin, Edward P.
Electronic digital logic circuitry
Clocking or synchronizing of logic stages or gates
326 16, H03K 514
Patent
active
057059420
ABSTRACT:
An improved local clock driver for locating critical speed paths within a integrated digital circuit. Highly integrated digital circuits have many local circuits and each local circuit has a local clock driver. The local clock driver strengthens and distributes a clock signal within the local circuit. The improved local clock driver introduces a controllable delay circuit in all the local clock drivers of the digital integrated circuit. By selectively delaying each local clock driver, critical speed paths can be located. To compensate for critical speed paths, the delay circuit can be turned on in the receiving local block circuit.
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Driscoll Benjamin D.
Intel Corporation
Westin Edward P.
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