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7620828 Dynamically changing PCI clocks  
A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium are presented for dynamically selecting a clock signal used by a peripheral device that is coupled to a motherboard. When the motherboard is powered...
7620788 Memory device sequencer and method supporting multiple memory device clock speeds  
A sequence state matrix has a plurality of time slots for storing a plurality of memory device signals. The memory device signals are loaded into the matrix by a sequencer load unit, which loads...
7619449 Method and apparatus for synchronous clock distribution to a plurality of destinations  
Circuits, methods and systems are disclosed providing clock synchronization circuits for synchronized clock distribution for a plurality of devices in a semiconductor device. The clock...
RE40990 Data transmission across asynchronous time domains using phase-shifted data packet  
A method and apparatus is provided for transmitting multi-bit data across asynchronous time domains. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a first delay circuit to generate a selector signal...
7617409 System for checking clock-signal correspondence  
A data processing system is provided having a clock signal comparator comprising a reference input port for receiving a reference clock signal and at least a further input port for receiving...
7617339 Serial interface circuit for data transfer  
A serial interface circuit includes a first circuit disposed in the core portion and connected to the CPU, and a second circuit disposed in the peripheral circuit and connected to the peripheral...
7606952 Method for operating serial flash memory  
A transmission method for a serial periphery interface (SPI) serial flash includes the steps of providing a first system clock signal and transmitting a plurality of data strings with each two bits...
7606942 Method for input output expansion in an embedded system utilizing controlled transitions of first and second signals  
A method for expanding input/output in an embedded system is described in which no additional strobes or enable lines are necessary from the host controller. By controlling the transitions of the...
7603579 Semiconductor chip and semiconductor integrated circuit device for relaying a reference clock from one hard macro to another  
A semiconductor chip has: a plurality of hard macros which operates based on a reference clock; and a clock pad through which the reference clock is supplied from the outside to one of the...
7602744 Detection of a simultaneous occurrence of an event at a plurality of devices  
The invention relates to a detection of a simultaneous occurrence of an event of a predetermined kind at a plurality of electronic devices. At least two devices detect the event and record at their...
7600144 Data transmission error reduction via automatic data sampling timing adjustment  
A data transmission error reduction circuit is formed including a delay circuit, a detection circuit and a control circuit. In one embodiment, the delay circuit includes n delay element and...
7599459 Receiving apparatus, data transmission system and receiving method  
A receiving apparatus receives data sequences, each of which includes plural data blocks, from plural transmission lines, respectively. The apparatus includes plural elastic buffers and a deskew...
7596710 Synchronization circuit and method with transparent latches  
A synchronization circuit for re-synchronizing data from an input clock to an output clock is presented. The first transparent latch receives data synchronized to an input clock. A second...
7596669 Apparatus and method for managing memory in a network switch  
The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for managing memory in a network switch, wherein the memory includes the steps of providing a memory, wherein the memory includes a...
7594146 Apparatus, method, and program for correcting time of event trace data  
A time correcting apparatus includes a data input section which inputs all event trace data generated for each event executed on computing devices and outputs the event trace data in order of...
7590882 System, method and storage medium for bus calibration in a memory subsystem  
A cascaded interconnect system with one or more memory modules, a memory controller and a memory bus that utilizes periodic recalibration. The memory modules and the memory controller are directly...
7590881 Method and apparatus for controlling an upper layer in a protocol stack to delay timeouts  
In a device communicating over a network, a proxy to delay timeout of an application on the device where the proxy is on a communications path between the application and the network, the proxy...
7590880 Circuitry and method for detecting and protecting against over-clocking attacks  
The present invention is directed to circuitry for detecting and protecting against over-clocking attacks on hardware modules. The circuitry preferably comprises a test signal, a delay path for...
7590879 Clock edge de-skew  
Circuits, methods, and apparatus for deskewing rising and falling edges of a clock signal. One embodiment of the present invention utilizes a delay element in a data path to adjust a data signal...
7590026 Access to printing material container  
The present invention provides a storage device that enables identification data to be readily rewritten and ensures normal completion of a data writing operation in a short time period. In the...
7587622 Power management of components having clock processing circuits  
A method and system for managing power consumption of a component that employs a clock processing circuit to produce a processed clock signal used by the component from a clock signal supplied to...
7581132 System and method for configuring a microcontroller clock system  
A method is provided for configuring a microcontroller clock system that includes a main oscillator, a phase locked loop, and a backup oscillator. According to the method, the main oscillator and...
7581131 Method and system for balancing clock trees in a multi-voltage synchronous digital environment  
A method for balancing clock trees in a multi-voltage synchronous digital environment is provided that includes generating a first source clock signal in a first voltage domain based on a first...
7577863 Addressing type frequency counter circuit  
An addressing type frequency counter circuit is disclosed, which receives a multiple parameter and a clock of addressing input from an external circuit, and uses a hardware address to perform the...
7577861 Duty cycle rejecting serializing multiplexer for output data drivers  
A method and apparatus is described herein for serializing input data streams into an output data stream. A first and second input data stream are sampled upon rising edges of a first and second...
7577226 Clock recovery circuitry  
Clock recovery circuitry for recovering a clock signal from a data signal is disclosed. The clock recovery circuitry comprises sampling unit ( 46 ) for sampling the data signal at a plurality of...
7574618 Interface circuit  
Noise removal and detection are performed for a signal VBUS in a detection portion in accordance with a low-frequency clock signal CLK generated by a CR oscillation circuit, and a detection signal...
7574274 Method and system for synchronizing audio processing modules  
Embodiments of the present invention provide an audio system having wholly independent audio processing modules. The audio system includes a plurality of audio processing modules, a clock manager,...
7573932 Spread spectrum clock generator  
A spread spectrum clock generator includes a non-volatile memory to store control codes corresponding to a predetermined delay. A delay circuit receives a control code having a predetermined number...
7571342 Processor system, instruction sequence optimization device, and instruction sequence optimization program  
To reduce power consumption of a processor system including a plurality of processors without degradation of the processing ability, a flag detecting section detects an assignment control flag and...
7571341 Method and system for fast frequency switch for a power throttle in an integrated device  
The ability to change from a first bus ratio to a second bus ratio without draining the transaction queues of a processor.
7568118 Deterministic operation of an input/output interface  
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving data from a second device in a first device, forwarding the data from an input/output (I/O) clock domain to a system clock...
7565564 Switching circuit and method thereof for dynamically switching host clock signals  
A switching circuit located in a computer system is disclosed in the present invention. The switching circuit comprises a first phase-locked loop generating a first host clock signal, a second...
7561582 Data reception device  
A data reception device having a reception data buffer unit storing a plurality of packets contained in a data packet, a reception data amount measuring unit measuring the data amount stored in the...
7558980 Systems and methods for the distribution of differential clock signals to a plurality of low impedance receivers  
Systems and methods to distribute clock signals using a common bus. In one embodiment, a clock signal distribution system includes: a bus; a transmitter coupled to the bus to drive a clock signal...
7558530 Device for generating a clock signal  
A device for generating an output clock signal intended to time a digital processing circuit, said generating device receiving a first clock signal, characterized in that it comprises an oscillator...
7555670 Clocking architecture using a bidirectional clock port  
Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to systems, methods, and apparatuses for a clocking architecture using a bidirectional clock. In an embodiment, a chip includes a bidirectional...
7555669 Timing vector program mechanism  
Timing vectors are used to pass execution of time-dependent operations from firmware/software to a hardware component (e.g., a state machine). These vectors may be stored as a vector table in a...
7555585 Optimized performance and power access to a shared resource in a multiclock frequency system on a chip application  
A request from a first processor for access to a shared resource in a computing system is received, and access is provided to the shared resource by the first processor at a first clock frequency....
7552353 Controlling circuit for automatically adjusting clock frequency of a central processing unit  
A controlling circuit for automatically adjusting clock frequency of a CPU is provided. The controlling circuit includes: a current sensing circuit for converting a current signal of the CPU to a...
7552252 Memory interface circuit and method  
An interface circuit and method are described, in which the interface circuit includes a plurality of bi-directional buffers and logic, responsive to a read request from a system component,...
7549075 System and method for adjusting execution frequency of a central processing unit  
A method for adjusting execution frequency of a central processing unit (CPU) in an electronic apparatus is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) obtaining a state of a CPU workload in...
7546480 High speed bus with alignment, re-timing and buffer underflow/overflow detection enhancements  
In a networked system in which high speed busses interconnect sources and destinations of data, systems for and methods of data alignment, data re-timing, and circular buffer underflow/overflow...
7545896 Asynchronous multi-clock system  
A system for controlling the transfer of a signal sequence in a first clock domain to a plurality of other clock domains. The system comprising: detecting circuitry for detecting receipt of the...
7543172 Strobe masking in a signaling system having multiple clock domains  
Systems and methods for masking strobe signals in strobe-based systems are provided below. These strobe-masking systems receive a strobe signal from a component operating under one clock domain and...
7543094 Target readiness protocol for contiguous write  
A method of performing contiguous write transactions on a processor bus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes detecting, by a bus agent, a request for a write cycle,...
7539889 Media data synchronization in a wireless network  
A method of keeping global time in a wireless network, the method comprising the steps of: using a first 802.11 chip set to read a Time Synchronization Function (TSF) to provide an initial time...
7539793 Synchronized multichannel universal serial bus  
The invention provides a method and apparatus for providing a synchronized multichannel universal serial bus, the method in one aspect comprising supplementing the signal channels in the USB...
7536580 System and method for generating timer output corresponding to timer request from plurality of processes  
The present invention relates to timer generation corresponding to a plurality of timer requests, etc. necessary for task processes of a CPU and achieves efficient timer generation. The present...
7536570 Microcontroller unit (MCU) with suspend mode  
A microcontroller unit having a suspend mode of operation includes a processing circuit for receiving digital information and processing said received digital information. Timing circuitry...