TIMING MARGIN SENSOR
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240250673A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-25

    申请号:US18419096

    申请日:2024-01-22

    摘要: A timing margin sensor includes a delay circuit to generate a calibrated delay that corresponds to a known delay value of a logic circuit. Circuitry locks a first delay produced by the delay circuit to a clock period of a clock signal that is associated with the known delay value. A programmable selector adjusts the first delay to generate the calibrated delay, the calibrated delay including a timing margin component. Circuitry detects a change in supply voltage provided to the logic circuit based on a detected change in the calibrated delay. Clock adjustment circuitry selectively changes the clock period based on the detected change in the calibrated delay.

    Local Interconnected Network Bus Repeater Delay Compensation

    公开(公告)号:US20240120908A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-11

    申请号:US18378614

    申请日:2023-10-10

    IPC分类号: H03K5/14 H03K5/19

    摘要: An integrated circuit is described. This integrated circuit may include: a receive circuit, coupled to a segment of a LIN bus, that receives bits; a measurement circuit, coupled to the receive circuit, that measures: a rising-edge time and a falling-edge time in the bits, or a bit time and a second bit time in the bits; control logic, coupled to the measurement circuit, that compares the rising-edge time and the falling-edge time, or the bit time and the second bit time; a transmit circuit, coupled to the receive circuit, that transmits the bits on a second segment of the LIN bus; and a delay circuit, coupled to the control logic, that applies, based at least in part on the comparison, a delay to: one or more rising edges or falling edges in the bits; or one or more bit times or second bit times in the bits.

    DELAY-LOCKED LOOP CIRCUIT AND METHOD
    4.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240106425A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-28

    申请号:US18526226

    申请日:2023-12-01

    摘要: A delay-locked loop (DLL) circuit includes a low pass filter coupled to a phase detector, and a digitally controlled delay line (DCDL) coupled to the low pass filter. The DCDL includes an input terminal, an output terminal coupled to an input terminal of the phase detector, and stages that propagate a signal along a first path from the input terminal to a selectable return stage and along a second path from the return stage to the output terminal. Each stage includes first and second inverters that selectively propagate the signal along the first and second paths, a third inverter that selectively propagates the signal from the first path to the second path, and either fourth and fifth inverters that selectively propagate the signal along the first and second paths, or a sixth inverter that selectively propagates the signal from the first path to the second path.

    Digitally controlled delay line circuit and method

    公开(公告)号:US11855644B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-26

    申请号:US18155906

    申请日:2023-01-18

    摘要: A digitally controlled delay line (DCDL) includes input and output terminals, and a plurality of stages that propagate a signal along a first signal path from the input terminal to a selectable return stage and along a second signal path from the return stage to the output terminal. Each stage includes a first inverter that selectively propagates the signal along the first signal path, a second inverter that selectively propagates the signal along the second signal path, and a third inverter that selectively propagates the signal from the first signal path to the second signal path. At least one of the first or third inverters includes a tuning portion including either a plurality of parallel, independently controllable p-type transistors coupled in series with a single independently controllable n-type transistor, or a plurality of parallel, independently controllable n-type transistors coupled in series with a single independently controllable p-type transistor.

    CLOCK GENERATOR CIRCUIT, CORRESPONDING DEVICE AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20230412160A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-21

    申请号:US18326582

    申请日:2023-05-31

    发明人: David Vincenzoni

    IPC分类号: H03K5/14 H03K19/20 H03L7/081

    摘要: In an embodiment, a circuit includes cascaded delay units arranged in a chain, each delay unit having an input-to-output delay time, wherein a first delay unit in the chain is configured to receive an input signal for propagating along the delay units in the chain, logic circuitry coupled to delay units in the chain, the logic circuitry configured to generate a clock signal as a logic combination of signals input to and output from the delay units in the chain and feedback circuitry configured to supply to the first delay unit in the chain a feedback signal, the feedback circuitry including a first feedback signal path from a last delay unit in the chain to the first delay unit in the chain and a second feedback signal path from an intermediate delay unit in the chain to the first delay unit in the chain, the intermediate delay unit arranged between the first delay unit in the chain and the last delay unit in the chain.

    Apparatuses and methods for delay control

    公开(公告)号:US11742017B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-29

    申请号:US17700346

    申请日:2022-03-21

    发明人: Yasuo Satoh

    摘要: Apparatuses and methods for adjusting a phase mixer circuit are disclosed. An example method includes providing data values stored by a plurality of first registers and a plurality of second registers. The method includes: during a first mode of operation, receiving the data values by groups of first registers of the plurality of the first registers and holding the data values by the plurality of second registers; during a second mode of operation, inverting a data value by one first register of the plurality of first registers at a time and holding the data values by the plurality of second registers; and during a third mode of operation, either inverting the data value by one first register of the plurality of first registers while holding the data values by the plurality of second registers or inverting a data value by one second register of the plurality of second registers while holding the data values by the plurality of first registers.

    On-chip spread spectrum synchronization between spread spectrum sources

    公开(公告)号:US11693446B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-07-04

    申请号:US17506172

    申请日:2021-10-20

    IPC分类号: G06F1/12 H03K5/14 H03L7/08

    CPC分类号: G06F1/12 H03K5/14 H03L7/08

    摘要: On-chip spread spectrum synchronization between spread spectrum sources is provided. A spread spectrum amplitude of a signal of a spread spectrum reference clock is obtained using one or more delay lines of one or more delay elements in a skitter circuit. A spread width of the spread spectrum amplitude of the signal is determined, using one or more sticky latches in the skitter circuit, based on one or more edges of the signal. A delay line of the one or more delay elements corresponding to a falling edge of the spread width of the signal is identified using combinational circuitry of the skitter circuit. A spread spectrum signal of a spread spectrum slave clock is synchronized with the signal of the spread spectrum reference clock based on the delay line.

    MEMORY PACKAGE, SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE, AND STORAGE DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20230179193A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-08

    申请号:US17866517

    申请日:2022-07-17

    IPC分类号: H03K5/14 H03K5/135 H03L7/081

    摘要: A memory package includes a plurality of memory chips, and an interface chip relaying communications between a controller and the plurality of memory chips and receiving a plurality of signals from the plurality of memory chips. The interface chip includes receivers outputting a data signal and a raw clock signal based on the plurality of signals, a delay circuit outputting a delay clock signal by applying an offset delay corresponding to ½ of one unit interval of the data signal and an additional delay to the raw clock signal, and a sampler sampling the data signal in synchronization with a clock signal. The delay circuit outputs the clock signal generated by removing the offset delay from the delay clock signal when the delay clock signal and the data signal have a phase difference corresponding to one unit interval of the data signal.