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US20160285439A1 MULTI-LEVEL CONVERSION FLIP-FLOP CIRCUITS FOR MULTI-POWER DOMAIN INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (ICs) AND RELATED METHODS 审中-公开
多功能域集成电路(IC)的多级转换FLIP-FLOP电路及相关方法

  • Patent Title: MULTI-LEVEL CONVERSION FLIP-FLOP CIRCUITS FOR MULTI-POWER DOMAIN INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (ICs) AND RELATED METHODS
  • Patent Title (中): 多功能域集成电路(IC)的多级转换FLIP-FLOP电路及相关方法
  • Application No.: US14669030
    Application Date: 2015-03-26
  • Publication No.: US20160285439A1
    Publication Date: 2016-09-29
  • Inventor: Jing XieYang Du
  • Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
  • Main IPC: H03K3/3562
  • IPC: H03K3/3562
MULTI-LEVEL CONVERSION FLIP-FLOP CIRCUITS FOR MULTI-POWER DOMAIN INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (ICs) AND RELATED METHODS
Abstract:
Multi-level conversion flip-flop circuits for multi-power domain integrated circuits (ICs) and related methods are disclosed. A flip-flop circuit latches a representation of a received input data signal in a lower voltage domain, in a latch circuit in a higher voltage domain without need for separate voltage level shifters. As a result, insertion loss/delay is minimized, thereby increasing performance. In certain aspects, the flip-flop circuits employ a gate-controlled, data control transistor to control activation of the latch circuit. By coupling the input data signal to a gate of the data control transistor, the input data signal in the lower voltage domain is not directly latched into the latch circuit. Instead, the data control transistor is configured to activate the latch circuit to latch a voltage in the higher voltage domain representing a logic value of the input data signal in the lower voltage domain in response to a clock signal.
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