US Patent Issued to Synopsys on July 15 for "Memory with external clock synchronized operation" (California, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,990, issued on July 15, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Memory with external clock synchronized operation" was invented by Harold Pilo (Underhill, Vt.), Sanjiv Kainth (Fremont, Calif.) and Anurag Garg (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are provided for controlling clock operation in a memory that applies a test mode to test functionality of the memory which controls timing in a self-time loop using an external clock that on a rising edge triggers a main clock and on a falling edge provides a reset timer return path to reset the main clock signal. In the reset timer return path, a...