Systems and methods for controlling timing in a circuit

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2006-07-04

2006-07-04

Le, Dinh T. (Department: 2816)

Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and

Specific signal discriminating without subsequent control

By amplitude

C327S057000, C365S207000, C365S205000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07071737

ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods for reducing or eliminating the effect of timing variations in signals generated by devices that are subject to the history effect, wherein devices are enabled using a combination of timing signals, some of which are subject to timing variations arising from the history effect, and some of which are not. In one embodiment, a sense amplifier includes a pair of serially configured transistors that couple the sense amplifier to ground. One of the transistors is switched on/off by a clock signal that is not subject to history-effect timing variations, and the other is switched on/off by a signal that is subject to such variations. The second signal has pulses that are selectively delayed so that they will (or will not) overlap with the pulses of the clock signal in a controlled manner.

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