Abstract: A design structure embodied in a machine readable medium includes information for designing, manufacturing and/or testing a programmable phase frequency divider circuit implemented in CMOS technology for space applications. The programmable phase frequency divider consists of three radiation hardened D-type flip flops and combinational logic circuits to provide the feedback controls that allow programmable frequency division ratios from 1 to 8. The radiation hardened D-type flip flop circuits are designed to keep on running properly at GHz frequencies even after a single event upset (SEU) hit. The novel D-type flip flop circuits each have two pairs of complementary inputs and outputs to mitigate SEU's. The combinational logic circuits are designed to utilize the complementary outputs in such a way that only one of the four dual complementary inputs to any D-type flip flop gets flipped at most after an SEU hit.

Abstract: Dialkylamino-substituted 2-anilino-5'/6'-carboxyfluorans, esterified dialkylamino-substituted 2-anilino-5'/6'-carboxyfluorans and 3,3-(corresponding-substituted-diaryl)-5/6-carboxyphthalides useful as color formers, particularly in carbonless duplicating and thermal marking systems, are prepared by the interaction of 4/5-carboxy-2-(4-dialkylamino-substituted-2-hydroxybenzoyl)benzoic acids and substituted diphenylamines to produce the phthalides which are then subjected to ring closure to produce the carboxyfluorans which are esterified with alkyl halides or dialkyl sulfates.