Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Arbitrary delay buffer
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Application No.: US15089138Application Date: 2016-04-01
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Publication No.: US10250242B2Publication Date: 2019-04-02
- Inventor: Chengming He
- Applicant: Chengming He
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: INTEGRATED DEVICE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee: INTEGRATED DEVICE TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agent Tracy Parris
- Main IPC: H03K5/133
- IPC: H03K5/133 ; H03K5/15 ; H03K3/03 ; H03K5/1534 ; H03K21/02 ; H03K5/131 ; H03K5/00

Abstract:
A signal may be arbitrarily delayed in discrete steps by an arbitrary delay buffer having an analog delay and a digital delay. An analog delay may have a number of selectable delay stages (e.g. ring oscillator with VCDL stages). A digital delay may have rising and falling edge detectors, resettable ring oscillators that oscillate in response to rising or falling edges and counters to count oscillations and generate rising and falling edge delay signals when oscillation counts reach rising and falling edge delay counts. A resettable ring oscillator may have a resettable stage (e.g. VCDL) that may be enabled and disabled. Selection of one or both digital and analog delays and respective delay times may be based on one or more characteristics. For example, an analog delay may delay an input signal or a delayed input signal received from the digital delay based on input signal frequency or total delay.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170288655A1 Arbitrary Delay Buffer Public/Granted day:2017-10-05
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