Patents by Inventor Mike Rothman

Mike Rothman has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Circuitry for synthesizing an arbitrary clock signal and methods for the synthesis thereof
    Patent number: 7288972
    Abstract: Circuitry for synthesizing an arbitrary clock signal with minimal jitter is provided. The circuitry of this invention selectively multiplexes a sequence of two different byte patterns into a serializer, which serializes the sequence and transmits it to receiver circuitry in the serial domain. The frequency of the synthesized clock transmitted by the serializer is a function of the serialized sequence and the frequency in which the serialized sequence is transmitted to the receiver circuitry. Thus, a desired clock frequency can be synthesized by manipulating the byte patterns and the sequence in which the bytes are serialized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2007
    Assignee: Altera Corporation
    Inventors: Ben Esposito, Mike Rothman