Invention Grant
US08390352B2 Apparatus and method for compensating for process, voltage, and temperature variation of the time delay of a digital delay line
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用于补偿数字延迟线的时间延迟的过程,电压和温度变化的装置和方法
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for compensating for process, voltage, and temperature variation of the time delay of a digital delay line
- Patent Title (中): 用于补偿数字延迟线的时间延迟的过程,电压和温度变化的装置和方法
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Application No.: US12418981Application Date: 2009-04-06
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Publication No.: US08390352B2Publication Date: 2013-03-05
- Inventor: James Seefeldt , Xiaoxin Feng , Weston Roper
- Applicant: James Seefeldt , Xiaoxin Feng , Weston Roper
- Applicant Address: US NJ Morristown
- Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
- Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NJ Morristown
- Agency: Shumaker & Sieffert, P.A.
- Main IPC: H03L7/00
- IPC: H03L7/00

Abstract:
A process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) compensation circuit and a method of continuously generating a delay measure are provided. The compensation circuit includes two delay lines, each delay line providing a delay output. The two delay lines may each include a number of delay elements, which in turn may include one or more current-starved inverters. The number of delay lines may differ between the two delay lines. The delay outputs are provided to a combining circuit that determines an offset pulse based on the two delay outputs and then averages the voltage of the offset pulse to determine a delay measure. The delay measure may be one or more currents or voltages indicating an amount of PVT compensation to apply to input or output signals of an application circuit, such as a memory-bus driver, dynamic random access memory (DRAM), a synchronous DRAM, a processor or other clocked circuit.
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