Patents Examined by Thomas P. Callahan
  • Patent number: 6621315
    Abstract: A delay line receives an input clock signal and includes a cascaded plurality of unit delay circuits. A mode register set stores a value indicative of a column-address-strobe (CAS) latency of the memory device, and an adjustment circuit varies a delay time of the unit delay circuits according to the CAS latency stored in the mode register set. A phase detector detects a phase difference between the input clock signal and an output clock signal of the delay line, and a control circuit which controls an enabled state of the unit delay circuits according to an output of said phase detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nak Won Heo, Young Hyun Jun