Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-level clock and data recovery circuit
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Application No.: US15695491Application Date: 2017-09-05
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Publication No.: US10659214B2Publication Date: 2020-05-19
- Inventor: Biman Chattopadhyay , Ravi Mehta , Sanket Naik , Jayesh Wadekar
- Applicant: Synopsys, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fenwick & West LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@3dda9da0
- Main IPC: H04L7/00
- IPC: H04L7/00 ; H04L7/033 ; H04L7/06 ; H04L7/04 ; H04L27/26

Abstract:
A clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit includes first through ninth samplers, a clock recovery circuit, a level finding circuit, an offset voltage generator, and a data recovery circuit. Each of the first through ninth samplers samples a data signal based on one of first through ninth reference offset voltage levels to generate first through ninth intermediate signals, respectively. The clock recovery circuit generates the first through fourth clock signals based on the first, second, fifth, and eighth intermediate signals. The level finding circuit generates a band level signal by varying the third intermediate signal. The offset voltage generator generates one of: the fourth and seventh reference offset voltage levels, the fifth and eighth reference offset voltage levels, and the sixth and ninth reference offset voltage levels based on the band level signal. The data recovery circuit detects an output data signal based on the fourth through ninth intermediate signals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180069690A1 MULTI-LEVEL CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2018-03-08
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