US Patent Issued to NXP on Feb. 10 for "Clock signal monitoring unit" (British, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,206, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Clock signal monitoring unit" was invented by Andreas Lentz (Buchholz, Germany) and David Paul Price (Totton, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a clock signal monitoring unit comprising first, second and third flip-flops, first and second XOR gates and a delay element being functionally interconnected in a specific way. The proposed clock signal monitoring unit can detect both a rising edge glitch and a falling edge glitch. In this way there is provided an area saving device, which does not require any trimming eff...