US Patent Issued to DOLPHIN SEMICONDUCTOR on May 12 for "Circuit for detecting timing violations in a digital circuit" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,283, issued on May 12, was assigned to DOLPHIN SEMICONDUCTOR (Paris).

"Circuit for detecting timing violations in a digital circuit" was invented by Mathieu Louvat (Paris) and Francois Jacquet (Villard Bonnot, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a circuit comprising: -a first timing guard circuit (200) configured to detect when a slack time of a first data signal arriving at a first synchronous device (202) falls below a first threshold (SLG DELAY); and -a second timing guard circuit (200) configured to detect when a slack time of a second data signal arriving at a second synchronous device (202) fa...