公开(公告)号：US20170310312A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-26

申请号：US15134994

申请日：2016-04-21

Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated

Inventor： Rajesh ARIMILLI ,  Apurv NARKHEDE ,  Ajay NAWANDHAR

IPC: H03K5/15

CPC classification number: H03K5/15026 ,  G06F1/10 ,  G06F2207/388

Abstract: Apparatuses and methods to relay a clock signal to clock loads are presented. An apparatus includes a clock spine to conduct a clocking signal. The clock spine includes multiple taps points distributed unevenly on the clock spine. The apparatus further includes multiple clock buffers. Each of the multiple clock buffers is connected to a corresponding one of the multiple tap points. The method includes conducting a clocking signal on a clock spine having multiple taps points. The multiple tap points are distributed unevenly on the clock spine. The method further includes buffering the clocking signal at each of the multiple tap points. Another method includes forming a clock spine to conduct a clocking signal. The clock spine includes multiple taps points. The multiple tap points are distributed unevenly on the clock spine. The method further includes forming multiple clock buffers.