System for reshaping and retiming a digital signal

Claim 1

A RECLOCKING SYSTEM COMPRISING MEANS FOR INVERTING AN INCOMING DIGITAL SIGNAL, AN AND GATE AND AN INHIBIT GATE EACH ARRANGED TO RECEIVE THE INVERTED DIGITAL SIGNAL, A SINEWAVE SIGNAL SOURCE, MEANS FOR AMPLIFYING THE SINEWAVE SIGNAL OF THE SINEWAVE SIGNAL SOURCE, A VARIABLE DELAY LINE CONNECTED TO THE AMPLIFYING MEANS FOR CHANGING THE TIMING OF THE SINEWAVE SIGNAL, A CLOCK PULSE GENERATOR CONNECTED TO THE OUTPUT OF THE VARIABLE DELAY LINE FOR GENERATING REFERENCE CLOCK PULSES HAVING A PERIOD INDEPENDENT OF THE AMPLITUDE OF THE SINEWAVE SIGNAL, MEANS FOR SUPPLYING REFERENCE CLOCK PULSES SUBSTANTIALLY SIMULTANEOUSLY TO THE AND GATE AND THE INHIBIT GATE FOR SELECTIVELY GATING INFORMATION PULSES FROM THE INVERTED DIGITAL SIGNAL THROUGH EITHER THE AND GATE OR THE INHIBIT GATE A FLIP-FLOP CIRCUIT HAVING TWO STABLE STATES CONNECTED TO THE OUTPUTS OF THE AND GATE AND OF THE INHIBIT GATE AND ARRANGED FOR SWITCHING INTO EITHER OF ITS STABLE STATES BY THE GATED INFORMATION PULSES, AND MEANS FOR INVERTING THE OUTPUT SIGNAL FROM THE FLIP-FLOP CIRCUIT.