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US08390352B2 Apparatus and method for compensating for process, voltage, and temperature variation of the time delay of a digital delay line 有权
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

Apparatus and method for compensating for process, voltage, and temperature variation of the time delay of a digital delay line
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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