发明名称 |
Meta-stable-resistant front-end to a synchronizer with asynchronous clear and asynchronous second-stage clock selector |
摘要 |
A synchronizer that has reduced latency is used for synchronizing and conditioning a clock-enable signal to a free-running clock. Once the clock-enable signal is synchronized it is used to enable and disable gating of the free-running clock to a gated clock that suspends pulsing in response to the clock-enable signal. A first-stage flip-flop is 'meta-stable hardened' to reduce the probability of it becoming meta-stable. Gating on the clock and the clear inputs reduces the chance that simultaneous inputs will violate the timing of the flip-flop and thus cause metastability. A clear pulse is generated to clear the flip-flop. The clear pulse skews the flip-flop to be more likely to become metastable for one edge of the asynchronous input than for the other edge. The settling time to the second stage flip-flop is then adjusted to account for this skew in metastability. Settling time in the second stage is increased for the edge that is more likely to become metastable. Clock-enable conditioning to prevent partial output pulses is merged with the synchronizing function to further reduce latency.
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申请公布号 |
US5764710(A) |
申请公布日期 |
1998.06.09 |
申请号 |
US19950573407 |
申请日期 |
1995.12.15 |
申请人 |
PERICOM SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. |
发明人 |
CHENG, MICHAEL B.;WONG, ANTHONY YAP;HSIAO, CHARLES;WONG, BELLE |
分类号 |
G06F1/10;H04L7/02;(IPC1-7):H04L7/00 |
主分类号 |
G06F1/10 |
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