High speed conditional synchronous one shot circuit

• US 5,767,718 A
• Filed: 09/04/1996
• Issued: 06/16/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Etron Technology Inc
• Original Assignee: Etron Technology Inc
• Inventors: Shih, Jeng Tzong
• Primary Examiner(s): Callahan, Timothy P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): TON, MY TRANG
• Application Number:
  US08/707,403
• Time in Patent Office: 650 Days
• Field of Search: 327/199, 327/200-203, 327/206, 327/208, 327/209-212, 327/214, 327/215, 327/217, 327/218, 327/219, 327/225, 327/227, 327/228, 327/141
• US Class Current: 327/228
• CPC Class Codes: H03K 3/0372 of the master-slave type

Abstract

A high speed conditional synchronous one-shot circuit includes a master flip-flop for receiving an input signal and a clock signal and generating an output signal in response to the input signal and holding the output signal while the clock signal is high, the output signal going low upon the clock signal going low. A slave flip-flop has an input for receiving the output signal from the first flip-flop and a reset terminal for receiving a reset signal when the clock signal is low, a second flip-flop generating an output signal when the clock signal is high and in response to the output signal from the first flip-flop. In another embodiment, the one-shot circuit comprises a plurality of NAND gates, each gate having a plurality of inputs and an output.

Claims

1. A high speed conditional synchronous one-shot circuit comprising

a master flip-flop having a master input terminal, a master clock terminal, and a master output terminal, the master flip-flop generating a master output signal at the master output terminal in response to an input signal at the master input terminal while a clock signal at the master clock terminal is low and latching the master output signal while the clock signal is high, and

a slave flip-flop having a slave input terminal, a slave clock terminal, a slave reset terminal responses to the clock signal, and a slave output terminal, the slave flip-flop generating an output signal at the slave output terminal in response to an input signal at the slave input terminal and when the clock signal at the slave clock terminal is high.

said master flip-flop comprising a first transfer gate serially connected with a first bidirectional inverter,

said slave flip-flop comprising a second transfer gate serially connected with a second bidirectional inverter,

said master input terminal connected to said first transfer gate,

means operably connecting the clock signal to control said first transfer gate and said second transfer gate,

an output of said first bidirectional inverter coupled through the second transfer gate to an input of the second bidirectional inverter,

the slave output terminal connected to an output of said second bidirectional inverter, and

a reset transistor periodically applying a reset voltage to the input to the second bidirectional inverter in response to the clock signal.

2. The one-shot circuit as defined by claim 1 wherein the transfer gates and the bidirectional inverters comprise CMOS transistor pairs.

3. The one-shot circuit as defined by claim 2 wherein said means operably connecting the clock signal to the transfer gates includes an inverter for inverting the clock signal.

4. The one-shot circuit as defined by claim 3 wherein the reset transistor comprises a P channel enhancement mode transistor having a gate connected to receive the clock signal, the P channel enhancement mode transistor applying the reset voltage to the input of the second bidirectional inverter in response to the clock signal transitioning low.