Invention Application
- Patent Title: INTEGRATED CIRCUIT COMPRISING CIRCUITRY TO DETERMINE SETTINGS FOR AN INJECTION-LOCKED OSCILLATOR
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Application No.: US15632063Application Date: 2017-06-23
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Publication No.: US20180013438A1Publication Date: 2018-01-11
- Inventor: Jared L. Zerbe , Masum Hossain
- Applicant: Rambus Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: Rambus Inc.
- Current Assignee: Rambus Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Main IPC: H03L7/24
- IPC: H03L7/24 ; H03L1/00 ; H03K3/03 ; H03L7/06

Abstract:
Embodiments of an integrated circuit (IC) comprising circuitry to determine settings for an injection-locked oscillator (ILO) are described. In some embodiments, an injection signal is generated based on a first clock edge of a reference clock signal, and is injected into an ILO. Next, one or more output signals of the ILO are sampled based on a second clock edge of the reference clock signal, and settings for the ILO are determined based on the samples. In some embodiments, a sequence of two or more time-to-digital (TDC) codes is generated based on a reference clock signal and a free-running ILO. In some embodiments, the TDC circuitry that is already present in a delay-locked loop is reused for determining the sequence of two or more TDC codes. The ILO settings can then be determined based on the sequence of two or more
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