Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Phase interpolator
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Application No.: US14872327Application Date: 2015-10-01
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Publication No.: US09485086B2Publication Date: 2016-11-01
- Inventor: James L. Gorecki , Jiayun Zhang , Marcial K. Chua , Cosmin Iorga
- Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INPHI CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Ogawa P.C.
- Agent Richard T. Ogawa
- Main IPC: H03H11/16
- IPC: H03H11/16 ; H04L7/04 ; H03L7/00 ; H03K5/01 ; H03K5/135 ; H03K5/00

Abstract:
Apparatus to implement several high performance phase interpolators are disclosed. Some embodiments are directed to a full-wave integrating phase interpolation core comprising two pairs of in-phase and quadrature-phase current DACs arranged in a cascode architecture to drive an integrating capacitor and produce an interpolation voltage waveform. The current DACs are biased, weighted, and controlled by in-phase and quadrature-phase input clocks to yield an interpolation waveform that presents a phase value between the phases of the input clocks. Some embodiments deploying the interpolator core use feedback circuitry and reference voltages to adjust the common mode and amplitude of the interpolation voltage waveform to obtain both optimal performance and operation within the interpolator linear region or output compliance range. Both the single-core and dual-core implementations, as well as other implementations of the interpolator core, exhibit high power supply rejection, highly linear interpolation, a wide frequency range, and low cost duty cycle correction.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160072620A1 PHASE INTERPOLATOR Public/Granted day:2016-03-10
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