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7119592 Delay locked loop circuit with time delay quantifier and control  
A delay locked loop circuit has a quantifier for obtaining a measured delay quantity based on a time delay between an external signal and an internal signal. Based on the measured delay quantity, a...
7119523 Semiconductor chip  
A semiconductor chip able to reduce wasteful power loss due to a margin of power supply voltage considering variation of characteristics. A voltage setting signal for setting the power supply...
7119589 Jitter-resistive delay lock loop circuit for locking delayed clock and method thereof  
A delay lock loop circuit for delaying a reference clock to lock a delayed clock. The delay lock loop circuit includes a clock divider for dividing a frequency of the reference clock by N to...
7119596 Wide-range programmable delay line  
An apparatus comprising an input section, a first delay circuit and a second delay circuit. The input section may be configured to present a first intermediate signal by selecting either (i) an...
7119593 Delayed signal generation circuits and methods  
Circuitry for delaying a signal includes a phase-locked loop comprising one or more output nodes for outputting one or more output signals in response to a reference signal. A buffer is coupled to...
7116147 Circuit and method for interpolative delay  
A circuit and a method for interpolative delay is provided. The circuit includes a delay locked loop with interpolation delay. The delay locked loop includes a differential inverter, an...
7116142 Apparatus and method for accurately tuning the speed of an integrated circuit  
An apparatus and method for accurately tuning the speed of an integrated circuit, i.e. a computer chip, using a built-in sense circuit and controller are provided. The sense circuit is provided in...
7116146 Digital DLL device, digital DLL control method, and digital DLL control program  
A digital DLL device is provided which can reduce an error with respect to a target delay amount. The device provides a delay to an input clock signal so as to equally divide a clock cycle T...
7116143 Synchronous clock generator including duty cycle correction  
A clock generator for generating an output clock signal synchronized with an input clock signal and having a corrected duty cycle. The clock generator includes an input buffer to buffer the input...
7116148 Variable delay line using two blender delays  
A variable delay line comprises a first blender delay configured to provide a first signal, a second blender delay configured to provide a second signal complementary to the first signal, and a...
7113024 Circuit module with high-frequency input/output interfaces  
The invention relates to a circuit module with high-frequency input/output interfaces, and in particular to a circuit realized on a chip, principally a monolithic integrated circuit having a...
7113015 Circuit for setting a signal propagation time for a signal on a signal line and method for ascertaining timing parameters  
A tuning circuit for setting a signal propagation time on a signal line in an integrated circuit, particularly a DRAM circuit, has a transistor and a capacitor. A control connection of the...
7113011 Low power PLL for PWM switching digital control power supply  
A timing source for a pulse generator is disclosed, which timing source includes an input for receiving a reference clock output at a reference operating frequency. An edge generator is provided...
7113012 Skew delay compensator  
A skew delay compensator is provided including at least two communication interfaces, at least two conductors connected to the communication interfaces, adjustable delay lines connected to the...
7109766 Adjustable frequency delay-locked loop  
A delay-locked loop 300 that includes: an adjustable frequency source ( 320 ) for generating a clock signal ( 322 ) having an adjustable frequency; an adjustment and tap selection controller (...
7109767 Generating different delay ratios for a strobe delay  
A digital delay-locked loop has been discovered having a reduced area as compared to typical register-controlled delay-locked loops (RDLLs) used to control strobe delay lines that provide delay to...
7109774 Delay locked loop (DLL) circuit and method for locking clock delay by using the same  
A delay line unit of a delay locked loop (DLL) circuit, includes a first delay line having a plurality of first unit delays, each first unit delay having a first delay; a second delay line having a...
7111185 Synchronization device with delay line control circuit to control amount of delay added to input signal and tuning elements to receive signal form delay circuit  
A method and apparatus for synchronizing signals. For memory devices, such as SDRAMs, implementing a synchronization device to synchronize one signal, such as an external clock signal with a second...
7106114 Delay time adjusting method of delaying a phase of an output signal until a phase difference between an input signal and the output signal becomes an integral number of periods other than zero  
A delay time adjusting method adjusts a delay time of an input signal so that a phase of the input signal and a phase of an output signal match each other. The delay time adjusting method comprises...
7107475 Digital delay locked loop with extended phase capture range  
A digital delay locked loop uses a delay array to delay an input signal by an amount indicated by a delay code. A phase of the resulting delayed signal is compared to a corresponding phase of the...
7102403 Clock recovering circuit utilizing a delay locked loop for generating an output clock locked to an analog input signal and related method thereof  
A clock recovering circuit for generating an output clock locked to an analog input signal includes: a phase detection unit for receiving the analog input signal and the output clock for generating...
7103492 Process independent delay chain  
An integrated circuit has a circuit for adjusting the time period of an output signal. The adjustment can compensate for semiconductor processing variations varying from wafer to wafer. The circuit...
7102402 Circuit to manage and lower clock inaccuracies of integrated circuits  
A circuit for generating and distributing highly accurate and stable clocks on a large integrated die is described. A Digital De-skew System is used to help prevent metastability and dither,...
7103133 Register controlled delay locked loop circuit  
A register controlled delay locked loop (DLL) includes a clock divider, a shift controller, a delay unit and a delay model to synchronize an external clock signal with an internal clock. The...
7098714 Centralizing the lock point of a synchronous circuit  
A system and method to establish the lock point of a digital synchronous circuit (e.g., a DLL) at the center of or close to the center of its delay line is disclosed. The synchronous circuit is...
7099232 Delay locked loop device  
An apparatus for detecting locking information of a DLL clock in a semiconductor memory device includes a delayed locked loop for generating a first comparison signal and a first delay end signal;...
7098711 Semiconductor device, receiver circuit, and frequency multiplier circuit  
A delay circuit is provided including: 2 n (n is a natural number) unit delay circuits for delaying an input clock signal (with the period of T) in accordance with a delay setting signal and...
7098710 Multi-speed delay-locked loop  
A delay locked loop includes a primary delay line having a plurality of series-connected delay elements, wherein each of the delay elements operates in response to a supply voltage provided on a...
7100066 Clock distribution device and method in compact PCI based multi-processing system  
Disclosed is a clock distribution device and method in a compact PCI system based multi-processing system. A compact PCI based multi-processing system preferably includes processing signals upon...
7095261 Clock capture in clock synchronization circuitry  
Clock capturing synchronization circuitry first generates a synchronized clock signal from a reference clock signal, then captures the synchronized clock signal, and continues to output a...
7091760 DLL with adjustable phase shift using processed control signal  
Circuits and methods are described for producing a DLL clock signal with adjustable phase shift using a processed control signal. In one embodiment of the invention, a DLL circuit is provided that...
7089440 Skew compensation for a multi-agent shared bus  
A data processing system includes first, second, and third agents connected to a shared bus. The third agent is able to receive information via the shared bus from the first agent or from the...
7088275 Variable clock rate analog-to-digital converter  
An algorithmic analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a sample-and-hold circuit and an ADC processing unit operating in parallel and sharing a single operational amplifier. The ADC processing...
7088156 Delay-locked loop having a pre-shift phase detector  
A clock generator for generating an output clock signal synchronized with an input clock signal having first and second adjustable delay lines. The first adjustable delay lines is adjusted...
7088159 Register controlled delay locked loop and its control method  
A register controlled delay locked loop (DLL), including: a coarse delay line for generating a delayed input clock signal by delaying an external clock signal; a fine delay line unit for receiving...
7088158 Digital multi-phase clock generator  
A digital multi-phase clock generator includes a reference clock input and first and second digitally-programmable delay lines. The first and second delay lines are coupled in parallel with one...
7084682 Delay-locked loop circuit and method thereof for generating a clock signal  
A delay-locked loop circuit includes a phase frequency detector, a charge pump, a loop filter, a voltage controlled delay line and a coarse lock detector. The phase frequency detector generates an...
7081784 Data output circuit of memory device  
A data output circuit of a memory device comprises an output enable signal generating unit, an output driving unit, an output driving unit and an output enable control unit. The output enable...
7081782 Locked loop with dual rail regulation  
An apparatus having a dual rail regulated reference loop. The reference loop includes a delay circuit powered by upper and lower supply voltages to generate a plurality of reference clock signals,...
7078949 Analog delay locked loop having duty cycle correction circuit  
An analog delay locked loop device includes a first block for receiving an internal clock signal and a reference clock signal to generate normal multi phase clock signal pairs and dummy multi phase...
7079616 Process for generating a variable frequency signal, for instance for spreading the spectrum of a clock signal, and device therefor  
The use of a PLL including a phase detector responsive to the phase difference between an input signal and a feedback signal and which pilots an oscillator in function of this difference, is...
7076013 Clock synchronization device  
A clock synchronization device is disclosed which optimizes clock skew without increasing the number of unit delay cells by using an auxiliary delay circuit when a clock signal of ultra low...
7071746 Variable delay circuit  
A variable delay circuit includes plural stages of first variable delay elements coupled in series for sequentially delaying a reference clock signal or a data signal, a second variable delay...
7072433 Delay locked loop fine tune  
A digital delay locked loop (DLL) includes a coarse delay segment and fine delay segment. The coarse delay segment includes a coarse delay range. The fine delay segment includes a fine delay range....
7071745 Voltage-controlled analog delay locked loop  
An analog delay locked loop for receiving a reference clock signal and for generating a delayed output clock signal includes a voltage controlled delay line, a fixed delay line, a delay voltage...
7068085 Method and apparatus for characterizing a delay locked loop  
A delay locked loop includes a forward path, a feedback path, a phase detector, logic, and a dither circuit. The forward path includes a delay line configured to receive an input clock signal and...
7068084 Delay locked loop capable of compensating for delay of internal clock signal by variation of driving strength of output driver in semiconductor memory device  
In a delay locked loop (DLL) of a semiconductor memory device capable of compensating for delay of an internal clock signal by variation of driving strength of an output driver, a replica output...
7068202 Architecture for an algorithmic analog-to-digital converter  
An algorithmic analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a sample-and-hold circuit and an ADC processing unit operating in parallel and sharing a single operational amplifier. The ADC processing...
7064592 Method and apparatus for numeric optimization of the control of a delay-locked loop in a network device  
A method of setting a delay offset in slave Delay-Locked Loop (DLL) modules by a master DLL module is disclosed. The method includes determining whether a delay tap value needs to be adjusted based...
7061224 Test circuit for delay lock loops  
A method of testing a delay lock loop circuit is provided which comprises receiving an input signal and configuring the delay lock loop to generate a delay lock loop output signal based on the...