Patent ID: 7498843

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a first circuitry, implemented using current-controlled complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (C 3 MOS) logic with inductive broadbanding, wherein logic levels are signaled by current steering in one of two or more branches in response to differential input signals that correspond to a first signal, and wherein first and second series connected RL circuits respectively couple first and second output nodes of a logic element to a power supply node, that is operable to: receive the first signal; process the first signal thereby generating a first plurality of signals such that each signal of the first plurality of signals has a first frequency; and output the first plurality of signals; and a second circuitry, implemented using conventional complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) logic wherein substantially zero static current is dissipated, that is operable to: receive the first plurality of signals; process the first plurality of signals thereby generating a second signal such that the second signal has a second frequency; and output the second signal.