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7576576 Switchable PLL circuit  
An electronic circuit includes a first and a second PLL stage (PLL 1 , PLL 2 ) that can be switched in parallel or in series depending on locking of the first one of the PLL circuits to an input...
7576579 DLL circuit and semiconductor device including the same  
A DLL circuit includes a first delay adjusting circuit that adjusts an amount of delay of a frequency-divided signal CK 1 , a second delay adjusting circuit that adjusts an amount of delay of a...
7573311 Programmable high-resolution phase delay  
A programmable delay lock loop system provides a delayed output signal having a programmed delay from an input signal. A phase detector provides a phase delay signal indicative of an actual phase...
7573308 Delay locked loop circuit for preventing malfunction caused by change of power supply voltage  
A Delay Locked Loop (DLL) circuit prevents a malfunction caused by a change of a power supply voltage, and includes a first and a second delay lines and a first and a second signal processors for...
7573312 Apparatus and method of controlling operation frequency in DLL circuit  
A frequency multiplier increases the frequency of an external clock and outputs a high-frequency external clock. A period determinator determines whether or not a predetermined period of the...
7570093 Delay-locked loop and a delay-locked loop detector  
A delay-locked loop detector detects a control voltage of a delay-locked loop, in which the delay-locked loop generates an output clock signal according to a delay time that is controlled by the...
7571406 Clock tree adjustable buffer  
An adjustable buffer including a first series of P-channel devices having current electrodes coupled in series between a first voltage supply and a first output node, and a first series of...
7567103 Apparatus for detecting and preventing a lock failure in a delay-locked loop  
An apparatus for detecting a lock failure and correcting a duty cycle includes a lock failure detector configured to determine whether a first internal clock signal is locked to a second internal...
7567102 Delay locked loop circuit in semiconductor device and its control method  
A delay locked loop (DLL) device includes a first and a second input buffers for receiving an external clock, a multiplexer for selectively outputting a first and a second internal clocks based on...
7567100 Input clock detection circuit for powering down a PLL-based system  
An apparatus is provided for detecting the loss of an input clock signal for a phase-locked loop (PLL). The apparatus includes a time delay circuit, a first frequency divider and a digital logic...
7564283 Automatic tap delay calibration for precise digital phase shift  
An automatic calibration scheme is provided, which calibrates the equivalent taps per period ETT/P every time a delay lock loop is used. More specifically, a digital phase shifter is used to...
7560962 Generating an output signal with a frequency that is a non-integer fraction of an input signal  
Generating an output signal having a frequency of 1/(M+F) of the frequency of the input signal, wherein M represents an integer and F represents a non-zero fraction. Assuming F equals (Q/R) in one...
7560963 Delay-locked loop apparatus and delay-locked method  
A delay-locked loop device compensates a skew between an external clock and data or between an external clock and an internal clock particularly by applying a single delay model portion, a...
7557627 Semiconductor memory device for generating a delay locked clock in early stage  
A semiconductor memory apparatus includes a first delay locked loop configured to delay a system clock by a predetermined time to thereby generate a first delay locked clock synchronizing a data...
7557628 Method and apparatus for digital phase generation at high frequencies  
An apparatus and method for generating phase related clocks, includes delaying a clock input by a cycle delay magnitude to generate a cycle delay signal and N delay taps is disclosed. Each delay...
7557626 Systems and methods of reducing power consumption of digital integrated circuits  
There exists a speed/power tradeoff in many digital logic circuits. In one embodiment, the tradeoff is used to reduce or minimize power dissipation by slowing down digital logic paths as system...
7554371 Delay locked loop  
A delay locked loop for generating an internal clock signal locked to an external clock signal includes: a phase detector for detecting a phase difference between the external clock signal and the...
7555073 Automatic frequency control loop circuit  
Provided is a frequency control loop circuit changing division ratios of a frequency synthesizer to oscillate frequencies in a broadband with high precision. The circuit comprises a clock...
7551012 Phase shifting in DLL/PLL  
The disclosure relates to phase shifting in Delay Locked Loops (DLLs) and Phase-Locked Loops (PLLs). A charge pump in the DLL or PLL includes a capacitor connected in parallel to an output node. A...
7548105 Method and apparatus for source synchronous testing  
A method and apparatus for source synchronous testing have been disclosed. In one case a data signal is delayed and a selectively activated delay is applied to a clock. This allows the clock to be...
7545189 Delayed locked loop circuit  
A Delayed Locked Loop Circuit of DLL comprises a buffer that receives a power-down signal and an inverted signal of a first clock signal; first and second delay lines an output device that outputs...
7545193 Voltage-controlled delay circuit using second-order phase interpolation  
Phase interpolation techniques for voltage-controlled delay line (VCDL) implementation are provided. The techniques of the invention may employ a second-order phase interpolation topology to...
7541851 Control of a variable delay line using line entry point to modify line power supply voltage  
Disclosed herein is a VDL/DLL architecture in which the power supply to the VDL, VccVDL, is regulated at least as a function of the entry point of the input signal (ClkIn) into the VDL....
7535275 High-performance memory interface circuit architecture  
A programmable memory interface circuit includes a programmable DLL delay chain, a phase offset control circuit and a programmable DQS delay chain. The DLL delay chain uses a set of serially...
7535274 Delay control circuit  
A delay control circuit includes a first delay unit, a signal regulation unit, a selector and a second delay unit. The first delay unit is used for delaying an input signal and generates a delayed...
7536617 Programmable in-situ delay fault test clock generator  
A system and method for programmable in-situ launch and capture clock generation is provided. The system provides an efficient and improved manner for delay and signal transition fault testing in...
7535273 Phase-locked loop circuit, delay locked loop circuit, timing generator, semiconductor test instrument, and semiconductor integrated circuit  
A PLL and DLL are designed such that the power consumption can be reduced, the size can be easily reduced, the band of the locked loop can be a higher one, and the reliability can be improved....
7532078 Scannable virtual rail method and ring oscillator circuit for measuring variations in device characteristics  
A scannable virtual rail method and ring oscillator circuit for measuring variations in device characteristics provides the ability to study random device characteristic variation as well as...
7532050 Delay locked loop circuit and method  
A delay locked loop includes initialization circuitry that ensures that a DLL is initialized to an operating point that is not to close to either end of a delay vs. control voltage characteristic....
7528639 DLL circuit and method of controlling the same  
A DLL circuit includes a buffer control unit configured to detect whether or not a DLL power supply exceeds a reference level and output a buffer control signal. A clock buffer buffers an external...
7528638 Clock signal distribution with reduced parasitic loading effects  
Clock signal distribution systems with reduced parasitic loading effects are provided. A reference clock is frequency-divided to produce a lower frequency clock signal. A delay-locked loop (DLL)...
7525363 Delay line and delay lock loop  
A delay line comprises first and second delay arrays and a multiplexer. The first delay array receives a clock signal and a delay control signal, and delays the clock signal to output a first delay...
7526056 Delay locked loop with low jitter  
Digital delay locked loops which generate fixed angle delayed (e.g., quadrature) clock signals based on a reference clock signal and that accounts for clock signal delay. The number of quadrature...
7525355 Digital delay locked loop  
A digital delay locked loop including a plurality of controllable delay circuits connected in series, a phase detecting unit, and a delay control unit is disclosed. As an output end of each of the...
7525354 Local coarse delay units  
Methods, circuits, devices, and systems are provided, including embodiments with local coarse delay units. One embodiment includes generating a first delayed signal, a second delayed signal, and a...
7522686 CMOS burst mode clock data recovery circuit using frequency tracking method  
Provided is a burst mode clock data recovery circuit for extracting clock information and data information from transmitted data to process data synchronized with clock. The circuit includes a...
7518422 Switched capacitor for a tunable delay circuit  
A method and apparatus is provided for providing a fine delay by switching on a capacitor delay. A coarse delay and/or a fine delay are implemented upon a reference signal based upon a phase shift...
7514973 Circuit having a clock signal synchronizing device with capability to filter clock-jitter  
A circuit having a clock signal synchronizing device with capability to filter clock-jitters is disclosed. One embodiment provides a delayed locked loop with capability to filter clock-jitter....
7511544 Digital DLL circuit for an interface circuit in a semiconductor memory  
A digital DLL circuit includes: a first register configured to hold a delay specifying value to specify a delay; a second register configured to specify a correction value for a gate delay inside...
7511543 Automatic static phase error and jitter compensation in PLL circuits  
An instantaneous phase error detector (IPED) and method includes a first gate configured to logically OR output phase error signals as data to a first latch, and a second gate configured to...
7508245 Lock detector and delay-locked loop having the same  
A lock detector of a delay-locked loop (DLL) includes a lock detection unit and a bias unit. The lock detection unit generates a charge control signal based on a reference current received from an...
7501865 Methods and systems for a digital frequency locked loop for multi-frequency clocking of a multi-core processor  
A method and systems for a digital frequency locked loop in a multi-core processor are provided. The method includes applying a dither modulation signal at a dither modulation frequency to modulate...
7501869 Low power, low phase jitter, and duty cycle error insensitive clock receiver architecture and circuits for source synchronous digital data communication  
A clock receiver architecture for source synchronous digital data communication, the receiver including a forwarded clock amplifier to provide the received forwarded clock signal to a plurality of...
7501868 Power supply voltage control apparatus  
A power supply voltage control apparatus capable of freely setting a clock period setting margin according to a system clock frequency, and capable of converging power supply voltage to minimum...
7496168 Phase-locked loop using multi-phase feedback signals  
A signal generator, such as a fractional-N PLL, has, in its feedback signal path, a divider, a phase circuit, and a fractional accumulator that generates control signals for the divider and the...
7495487 Delay-locked loop (DLL) system for determining forward clock path delay  
A delayed locked loop (DLL) system and method for determining a forward clock path delay are disclosed. One embodiment of the DLL system includes a delay line having a plurality of delay stages....
7495489 Frequency multiplying delay-locked loop  
Frequency multiplying delay-locked loop techniques are described in which a plurality of phase shifted signals are generated utilizing a delay-locked loop circuit having a clock multiplication, the...
7495518 Automatic radio frequency feedback calibration circuit  
A calibration circuit is configured to provide automatic feedback calibration during a tuning cycle. Automating the calibration process reduces the engineering evaluation time and mass production...
7492850 Phase locked loop apparatus with adjustable phase shift  
The phase locked loop (PLL) with adjustable phase shift is described. The PLL includes a voltage controlled oscillator which is capable of generating multiple phase shifted output signals, and...
7492849 Single-VCO CDR for TMDS data at gigabit rate  
A clock and data recovery circuit has a voltage controlled oscillator that provides a clocking signal synchronized to a received serialized data. A multiple phase generator converts the clocking...