Patents by Inventor Santosh Sood

Santosh Sood has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8222943
    Abstract: A digital logic circuit includes a logic element for providing a data signal, a clock for providing a clock signal and a master-slave flip-flop. The master-slave flip-flop includes a master latch for storing data on a master latch input at a first active edge of the clock signal and a slave latch for storing data on an output of the master latch at a second active edge of the clock signal following the first active edge. A timing error detector asserts an error signal in response to a change in the data signal during a detection period following the first active edge of the clock signal. A timing correction module selectively increases a propagation delay of the data signal from the logic element to the master latch input in response to the error signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Santosh Sood, Mukesh Bansal
  • Patent number: 8198916
    Abstract: A digital signal voltage level shifter includes an edge detector that detects assertion of a digital input signal from a first logic circuit in a source voltage domain, and an output module triggered by the edge detector for asserting a digital output signal corresponding to the digital input signal for a second logic circuit in a destination voltage domain. The edge detector and the output module are supplied with power only from a power supply of the destination voltage domain and are not connected to a power supply of the source voltage domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventors: Santosh Sood, Neeraj Kumar, Saurabh Srivastava
  • Publication number: 20120068749
    Abstract: A digital logic circuit includes a logic element for providing a data signal, a clock for providing a clock signal and a master-slave flip-flop. The master-slave flip-flop includes a master latch for storing data on a master latch input at a first active edge of the clock signal and a slave latch for storing data on an output of the master latch at a second active edge of the clock signal following the first active edge. A timing error detector asserts an error signal in response to a change in the data signal during a detection period following the first active edge of the clock signal. A timing correction module selectively increases a propagation delay of the data signal from the logic element to the master latch input in response to the error signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC
    Inventors: SANTOSH SOOD, Mukesh Bansal
  • Publication number: 20120049887
    Abstract: A digital signal voltage level shifter includes an edge detector that detects assertion of a digital input signal from a first logic circuit in a source voltage domain, and an output module triggered by the edge detector for asserting a digital output signal corresponding to the digital input signal for a second logic circuit in a destination voltage domain. The edge detector and the output module are supplied with power only from a power supply of the destination voltage domain and are not connected to a power supply of the source voltage domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC
    Inventors: Santosh Sood, Neeraj Kumar, Saurabh Srivastava