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Abstract

A method and apparatus are described which eliminate the clock skew problems associated with routing clock signals throughout a circuit. Particularly well suited for Very Large Scale Integration ('VLSI') chips, the method and apparatus provide a resonator which is distributed across the circuit. This allows the clock to be accessed at a variety of locations without any propagation delay between the access points. The method for distributing a single, distributed clock signal to a plurality of clock connection points in a circuit comprises two steps. The first step is to generate the clock signal, such that the clock signal is available at a plurality of clock source points without propagation delay. The second step is to couple the plurality of clock source points to the plurality of clock connection points in the circuit.

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