Patent ID: 6981169

Claim:
A modified glitch latch, said modified glitch latch being a sensing element coupled to a read word line of a retirement payload array, said modified glitch latch comprising: a modified glitch latch output terminal; a control circuit, said control circuit comprising a control circuit first input terminal, a control circuit second input terminal and a control circuit output terminal; a clock signal coupled to said control circuit first input terminal, said clock signal having a first or “A” phase and a second or “B” phase; a read signal coupled to said control circuit second input terminal, said read signal having a first or inactive phase and a second or active phase, said second or active phase of said read signal corresponding to a shift in position of a read pointer of said retirement payload array, wherein; a control signal from said control circuit output terminal opens said modified glitch latch only when, both: said clock signal is in said “B” phase; and said read signal is in said active phase.