Plural Outputs Patents (Class 327/295)
  • Patent number: 12191865
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an apparatus includes one or more timing components configured to generate a reference time signal based on a timing signal and a reference clock signal. The apparatus includes phase lock loop (PLL) configured to generate a synchronized output clock signal based on the reference clock signal and the reference time signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: David Francois Jacquet, Mostafa Ghazali, Masoud Kahrizi, Andras Tantos
  • Patent number: 12184751
    Abstract: A quadrature clock generator that takes advantage of the inherently low delay of a shunt-series inductively peaked clock buffer to generate quadrature clocks with the high jitter performance using just one additional stage in Q path compared to I path. The generator includes a delay cell that uses shunt-series peaking and uses a resistive DAC in series with the shunt inductor to provide a large delay range with good jitter characteristics. The resistive DAC can be placed near a real or a virtual ground to minimize capacitive loading on the signal path. This delay cell can provide greater than 2× delay tuning range and is suitable for clocks at high frequencies. This delay cell can also be used as a ring oscillator with large frequency tuning range. A low voltage differential signaling termination switch control that uses feed forward mechanism to control termination impedance of device in a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Sandipan Kundu, Ajay Balankutty, Bong Chan Kim, Yutao Liu, Jihwan Kim, Kai Yu, Gurmukh Singh, Stephen Kim, Richard Packard, Frank O'Mahony
  • Patent number: 12165044
    Abstract: A system may comprise a neural processing unit (NPU) including a plurality of processing elements (PEs) capable of performing computations for at least one artificial neural network (ANN) model; and a switching circuit. The switching circuit may be configured to select one clock signal among a plurality of clock signals having different frequencies, and supply the selected clock signal to the NPU. The one clock signal may be selected based on a utilization rate of the plurality of PEs for a particular layer among a plurality of layers of the at least one ANN model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: DEEPX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lok Won Kim, Seong Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 12135578
    Abstract: A band-pass clock distribution circuit includes a clock tree circuit including at least one clock buffer circuit. The clock tree circuit may be configured to receive a first clock signal from a clock generator circuit and to generate a second clock signal based on the first clock signal. A band-pass filter may be configured to receive the second clock signal and to provide a third clock signal to one or more load circuits. The band-pass filter includes a filtering resonant network including a first inductor and a second inductor coupled to one another at a center tap. The filtering resonant network is configurable to resonate with a parasitic capacitance associated with the one or more load circuits. A portion of the band-pass filter is integrated with the clock tree circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: JARIET TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Ark-Chew Wong, Richard Dennis Alexander, Clifford N. Duong
  • Patent number: 12124860
    Abstract: A method for driving in-system programming is provided. The method includes receiving a set of driving codes; setting an in-system-programming flag according to the set of driving codes; executing a system reset after the in-system-programming flag is set; detecting whether there is an in-system-programming flag after the system reset is finished; and executing an in-system-programming procedure when an in-system-programming flag is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Wen-Shuo Chang
  • Patent number: 12118293
    Abstract: The present invention provides more robust change management features to an XML document by allowing a user to interrelate changes. The system and method allow a user to group a set of changes together, nest a change within a group of changes, relate effectivity information about a change, and detect conflicting changes. This more robust change management feature will allow for greater collaboration, clarity, and efficiency in a workplace where many users may be working on a number of different areas in a document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: XCENTIAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Grant Vergottini
  • Patent number: 12096801
    Abstract: Provided is an aerosol-generating device including a heater, a first switch, a second switch, a first processor that outputs a first control signal for controlling an open/closed state of the first switch, and a second processor that communicates with the first processor. The second processor outputs a second control signal that controls an open/closed state of the second switch such that the open/closed state of the second switch is changed based on a communication status with the first processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: KT&G CORPORATION
    Inventor: Seung Won Lee
  • Patent number: 12038781
    Abstract: A configurable semiconductor device (“CSD”) is organized in four (4) quadrants able to perform user-defined logic functions via a clock fabric. The first quadrant, in one embodiment, includes a first serializer and deserializer (“SerDes”) region and a bank0 region for data processing. The second quadrant includes a second SerDes region and a bank5 region and the third quadrant contains a bank3 region and a bank4 region. The fourth quadrant includes a bank1 region and a bank2 region. The clock fabric is configured to provide a set of programmable or selectable clock signals with different clock speeds to various regions within the CSD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOWIN SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jianhua Liu, Jinghui Zhu, Ning Song, Tianping Wang, Chienkuang Chen, Diwakar Chopperla, Tianxin Wang, Zhenyu Gu, Xiaozhi Lin
  • Patent number: 12028067
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes various aspects of complementary 2(N)-bit redundancy for single event upset (SEU) prevention. In some aspects, an integrated circuit includes a data storage element to store a data value, another data storage element to store a complementary data value, a multi-bit data storage element (e.g., a 2-bit storage element) to store both the data value and the complementary data value, and voting logic that may enable a complementary data storage scheme with inter-circuit redundancy to prevent SEU. Additionally, the voting logic of the integrated circuit may enable detection and correction of data value errors and/or enable programming of voting logic criteria, which may be implemented dynamically based on a type of SEU failures that are detected or corrected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Syed Shakir Iqbal
  • Patent number: 12008268
    Abstract: A memory system includes a memory device including a plurality of non-volatile memories and an interface circuit connected to each of the plurality of non-volatile memories, and a memory controller connected to the interface circuit and configured to transmit/receive data according to a first clock, wherein the interface circuit is configured to divide the first clock into a second clock, according to the number of the plurality of non-volatile memories, and transmit/receive data to/from each of the plurality of non-volatile memories, according to the second clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daehoon Na, Jeongdon Ihm, Jangwoo Lee, Byunghoon Jeong
  • Patent number: 11989050
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for clock delay compensation in a multiple chiplet system. Techniques disclosed include distributing, by a clock generator, a clock signal across distribution trees of respective chiplets; measuring phases, by phase detectors, where each phase measurement is associated with a chiplet of the chiplets and is indicative of a propagation speed of the clock signal through the distribution tree of the chiplet. Then, for each chiplet, techniques are further disclosed that determine, by a microcontroller, based on the phase measurements associated with the chiplet, a delay offset, and that delay, based on the delay offset, the propagation of the clock signal through the distribution tree of the chiplet using a delay unit associated with the chiplet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Anwar Kashem, Craig Daniel Eaton, Pouya Najafi Ashtiani, Deepesh John
  • Patent number: 11967963
    Abstract: An Integrated Circuit (IC) includes feedback control-loop (FCL) circuitry to generate a delay-compensated output signal responsively to an input reference signal. The FCL circuitry includes a main feedback path, a first subtractor, a delay-compensation feedback path, and a second subtractor. The main feedback path is to generate a main feedback signal responsively to the delay-compensated output signal. The first subtractor is to generate a non-compensated output signal responsively to a difference between the main feedback signal and the input reference signal. The delay-compensation feedback path is to generate a delay-compensation feedback signal responsively to the delay-compensated output signal. The second subtractor is to generate the delay-compensated output signal responsively to a difference between the non-compensated output signal and the delay-compensation feedback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventor: Raanan Ivry
  • Patent number: 11954587
    Abstract: A system-on-chip (SoC) may comprise a semiconductor substrate; a first circuitry, disposed on the semiconductor substrate, provided for a first neural processing unit (NPU) configured to perform operations of an artificial neural network (ANN) model; a second circuitry, disposed on the semiconductor substrate, provided for a second NPU configured to perform operations of an ANN model; and a third circuitry, disposed on the semiconductor substrate, configured to generate a control signal to selectively output one or more clock signals, wherein each of the first NPU and the second NPU may include a plurality of processing elements (PEs), and the plurality of PEs may include an adder, a multiplier, and an accumulator, and wherein the one or more clock signals may include an original clock signal and one or more phase-delayed clock signals based on a phase of the original clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: DEEPX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seong Jin Lee, Jin Gun Song, Lok Won Kim
  • Patent number: 11950008
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image sensing device including a first clock distributor suitable for receiving a first input dock signal through a first input terminal, and outputting a plurality of first output clock signals through a plurality of first output terminals, and a first conductive line coupled in common to the plurality of first output terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Jeong Eun Song, Min Seok Shin, Yu Jin Park, Sung Uk Seo, Sun Young Lee
  • Patent number: 11855637
    Abstract: A ring oscillator includes an oscillation module, a first delay module, and a second delay module. The oscillation module is disposed in a first delay loop and a second delay loop and includes a first number of latches connected in series. The oscillation module has two input ends and two output ends, and the two input ends are respectively connected to a first node and a second node. The first delay module is disposed in the first delay loop and has an input end connected to a first output end of the oscillation module and an output end connected to the first node. The second delay module is disposed in the second delay loop and has an input end connected to a second output end of the oscillation module and an output end connected to the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Chan Chen, Anping Qiu
  • Patent number: 11848672
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an integrated circuit includes: a voting circuit including N scan flip-flops, where N is an odd number greater than or equal to 3, and where the N scan flip-flops includes a first scan flip-flop and a second scan flip-flop, where an output of the first scan flip-flop is coupled to a scan input of the second scan flip-flop; a scan chain including the N scan flip-flops of the voting circuit, and third and fourth scan flip-flops, the scan chain configured to receive a scan enable signal; and a scan enable control circuit configured to control a scan enable input of the first or second scan flip-flops based on the scan enable signal and based on a scan input of the third scan flip-flop or an output of the fourth scan flip-flop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventors: Sandeep Jain, Jeena Mary George
  • Patent number: 11817860
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a dual-clock generation circuit and method and an electronic device, and relates to the technical field of integrated circuits. The dual-clock generation circuit includes: a first inverter module, configured to access a first signal and output a first clock output signal; a second inverter module, configured to access a second signal and output a second clock output signal, where the first signal and the second signal are opposite clock signals; a first feedforward buffer, disposed between an input terminal of the first inverter module and an output terminal of the second inverter module, and configured to transmit the first signal to compensate for the second clock output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: CHANGXIN MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Yinchuan Gu
  • Patent number: 11798947
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes an active pattern including a channel region. The channel region is disposed between first and second source/drain patterns that are spaced apart from each other in a first direction. The channel region is configured to connect the first and second source/drain patterns to each other. A gate electrode is disposed on a bottom surface of the active pattern and is disposed between the first and second source/drain patterns. An upper interconnection line is disposed on a top surface of the active pattern opposite to the bottom surface of the active pattern and is connected to the first source/drain pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LD.
    Inventors: Sungmin Kim, Daewon Ha
  • Patent number: 11764673
    Abstract: A charge pump circuit includes a boost capacitor driven by a first clock signal and a bootstrap capacitor driven by a second clock signal. The first and second clock signals have different duty cycles, with the duty cycle of the second clock signal being smaller than the duty cycle of the first clock signal. An input transistor is coupled between an input node and a boost node coupled to the boost capacitor. The control terminal of the input transistor is coupled to the bootstrap capacitor. A bootstrap transistor coupled between the boost node and the control terminal of the input transistor is driven by a logical inverse of the first clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventor: Vikas Rana
  • Patent number: 11747398
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a scan chain circuit comprising cascaded flip-flops having a functional input node and a test input node configured to be selectively coupled to logic circuitry at a clock edge time. A clock line is provided configured to distribute one or more clock signals to the flip-flops in the chain, wherein the flip-flops in the chain have active clock edges applied thereto at respective clock edge times. The chain of flip-flops comprise a set of flip-flops configured to receive an edge inversion signal and to selectively invert their active clock edges in response to the edge inversion signal being asserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l.
    Inventor: Marco Casarsa
  • Patent number: 11740287
    Abstract: A semiconductor device of the embodiment includes a plurality of scan chains, a shift clock control circuit, and a shift clock generation circuit. The plurality of scan chains each include a plurality of scan flip-flops. The shift clock control circuit outputs, to each of the plurality of scan chains, a control signal that non-inverts or inverts a scan clock signal. The shift clock generation circuit is provided to each of the plurality of scan flip-flops and generates a non-inverted scan clock signal or an inverted scan clock signal based on the control signal, the non-inverted scan clock signal being obtained by non-inverting the scan clock signal, the inverted scan clock signal being obtained by inverting the scan clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Isao Ooigawa, Nariyuki Fukuda, Kazuhito Hosaka, Tsutomu Miyamae, Takeshi Yamaguchi, Suguru Tahara, Keitarou Mishima, Yuichiro Sanuki, Koichi Kimura
  • Patent number: 11709521
    Abstract: Synthetizing a hardware description language code into a netlist comprising loads and a multi-clock buffer (MBUF). The MBUF receives a global clocking signal and generates a first and a second related clocking signals. The loads are grouped into a first and a second groups receiving the first and the second clocking signals respectively. A first/second clock modifying leaf are placed between a common node and the first/group groups respectively, wherein the common node is positioned closer in proximity to the first/second groups in comparison to a clock source generating the global clocking signal. The first/second clock modifying leaves receive a least divided clocking signal from the MBUF and generate the first/second clocking signals respectively. The least divided clocking signal is routed from the MBUF to the first/second clock modifying leaves. The first/second clocking signals are routed from the first/second clock modifying leaves to the first/second group respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Frederic Revenu, Frank Mueller, Thomas O. Satter, Mehrdad Eslami Dehkordi, Garik Mkrtchyan, Satish B. Sivaswamy, Nicholas A. Mezei, Chun Zhang
  • Patent number: 11711084
    Abstract: In an embodiment, an apparatus includes an integrated circuit (IC) chip configured to receive a timing signal and a reference clock signal. The IC chips is configured to a reference time signal based on the timing signal and the reference clock signal. The IC chip includes a phase lock loop (PLL). The PLL is synchronized based on the reference time signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: David Francois Jacquet, Mostafa Ghazali, Masoud Kahrizi, Andras Tantos
  • Patent number: 11698658
    Abstract: A method system, and apparatus for adjusting skew in a circuit comprising feeding an input clock into a first push-pull source follower stage, feeding an inverse of an input clock bar into a first CMOS inverter stage, creating an output clock based on an equal contribution of the input clock of the first push-pull follower stage and the inverse of the input clock bar of the first CMOS invert stage, feeding the input clock bar into a first push-pull source follower stage, feeding an inverse of the input clock into a first CMOS inverter stage, and creating an output clock based on an equal contribution of the input clock bar of the first push-pull follower stage and the inverse of the input clock bar of the first CMOS invert stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Acacia Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Gavin Allen, Ian Dedic, Bo Yang, Tarun Gupta
  • Patent number: 11689203
    Abstract: In certain aspects, an apparatus includes a gating circuit having an enable input, a signal input, and an output, wherein the enable input is configured to receive an enable signal. The apparatus also includes a toggle circuit having an output, wherein the toggle circuit is configured to toggle a logic state at the output of the toggle circuit based on the enable signal. The apparatus further includes a multiplexer having a first input, a second input, and an output, wherein the first input of the multiplexer is coupled to the output of the gating circuit, the second input of the multiplexer is coupled to the output of the toggle circuit. The multiplexer is configured to select one of the first input and the second input based on the enable signal, and couple the selected one of the first input and the second input to the output of the multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kalyan Kumar Oruganti, Rajesh Arimilli, Sandeep Aggarwal, Gnana Chaitanya Prakash Kopparapu, Giby Samson, Xia Li
  • Patent number: 11604490
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatus for reducing low frequency power supply spurs in clock signals. One example circuit generally includes a first power supply circuit configured to generate a first power supply voltage on a first power supply rail, a second power supply circuit configured to generate a second power supply voltage on a second power supply rail, a clock distribution network, and a feedback circuit coupled between the second power supply rail and at least one input of the first power supply circuit. The feedback circuit may be configured to sense the second power supply voltage, to process the sensed second power supply voltage, and to output at least one feedback signal to control the first power supply circuit based on the processed second power supply voltage. The clock distribution network may include first and second sets of clock drivers powered by the first and second power supply voltages, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Roswald Francis, Edward Cullen
  • Patent number: 11592860
    Abstract: A system on chip includes: a functional circuit configured to perform a processing operation by receiving a supply voltage; a droop detection circuit configured to monitor the supply voltage and generate a detection signal indicating whether a droop of the supply voltage has occurred; a clock generation circuit configured to output a first clock signal having a first frequency; and a clock modulation circuit configured to receive the detection signal and the first clock signal, and provide a system clock signal to the functional circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dohyung Kim, Minyoung Kang
  • Patent number: 11551610
    Abstract: A display includes a camera under panel, a display panel, a frame rate controller, and a switching circuit. The display panel includes an under-panel camera region corresponding to the camera under-panel. A first pixel set, positioned in the under-panel camera region, driven by a first scan line, a second scan line, a first data line, a second data line, a third data line, and a fourth data line. The first pixel set includes a first pixel electrically connected to the first scan line and the third data line, a second pixel electrically connected to the second scan line and the third data line, a third pixel electrically connected to the first scan line and the first data line, a fourth pixel electrically connected to the second scan line and the second data line, and a fifth pixel electrically connected to the second scan line and the fourth data line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Wang
  • Patent number: 11538543
    Abstract: Noise injection systems and methods for conducting power noise susceptibility tests on memory systems, including solid state drives. A noise injection system comprises a power selector to deliver a voltage at a first or second level according to a frequency level indicated by a frequency select signal; a noise signal relay to receive a frequency noise signal and to deliver a low or high frequency noise component of the frequency noise signal according to the frequency level of the frequency select signal; and an amplification assembly, responsive to the frequency select signal and which receives the first or second level voltage based on the frequency level of the frequency select signal, receives and amplifies the high frequency noise component when the frequency select signal indicates a high frequency level, and receives and amplifies the low frequency noise component when the frequency select signal indicates a low frequency level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: SK hynix Inc.
    Inventors: Xiaofang Chen, Wenwei Wang, Satish Pratapneni
  • Patent number: 11514959
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for managing clock signals at a memory device are described. A memory device or other component of a memory module or electronic system may offset a received clock signal. For example, the memory device may receive a clock signal that has a nominal speed or frequency of operation for a system, and the memory device may adjust or offset the clock signal based on other operating factors, such as the speed or frequency of other signals, physical constraints, indications received from a host device, or the like. A clock offset value may be based on propagation of, for example, command/address signaling. In some examples, a memory module may include a registering clock driver (RCD), hub, or local controller that may manage or coordinate clock offsets among or between various memory devices on the module. Clock offset values may be programmed to a mode register or registers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Randon K. Richards, Dirgha Khatri
  • Patent number: 11500412
    Abstract: A circuit system includes an interposer that has a first clock network and first and second integrated circuit dies that are mounted on the interposer. The first integrated circuit die includes a phase detector circuit, an adjustable delay circuit that generates a second clock signal in response to a first clock signal received from the first clock network, and a second clock network that generates a third clock signal in response to the second clock signal. The second integrated circuit die comprises a third clock network that generates a fourth clock signal in response to the first clock signal received from the first clock network. The phase detector circuit controls a delay provided by the adjustable delay circuit to the second clock signal based on a phase comparison between phases of the third and fourth clock signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Chromczak, Chooi Pei Lim, Lai Guan Tang, Chee Hak Teh, MD Altaf Hossain, Dheeraj Subbareddy, Ankireddy Nalamalpu
  • Patent number: 11483007
    Abstract: Described are apparatus and methods to calibrate and align multiple high-speed clock domains. A system includes at least two clock domains, a launch circuit connected to each of the at least two domains, and a calibration circuit. Each clock domain including a resettable device having a local reset retime clock. The launch circuit aligns a reset pulse with the local reset retime clock by using a launch clock from one of the domains, where the reset pulse is incoherent with respect to the domains, adjusts a delay of the launch clock to control a launch time of the reset pulse, and sends the reset pulse based on the delayed launch clock. The calibration circuit samples a local reset retime delayed clock to generate a readback signal. The launch circuit and the calibration circuit iterate through selected delays until safe arrival timing is indicated from each readout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Jerry Yee-Tung Lam, Douglas Stuart McPherson, Robert Gibbins, Naim Ben-Hamida
  • Patent number: 11468931
    Abstract: A memory subsystem architecture that includes clock signal routing architecture to split a clock signal to support two register clock driver (RCD) devices. The clock signal routing architecture may include clock signal splitter circuit that enables contemporaneous provision of a common clock signal to the two register clock driver devices. The clock signal splitter circuit may have three legs: a first leg to receive the clock signal from an external bus, and two similar legs to route the clock signal to the RCD devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew B. Leslie, Timothy M. Hollis, Roy E. Greeff
  • Patent number: 11444746
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for phasing detection of asynchronous dividers are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a clock and data recovery system includes a first divider that outputs a first divided clock signal, a second divider that outputs a second divided clock signal, and an asynchronous clock phasing detection circuit that generates a detection signal indicating a relative phase difference between the first divided clock signal and the second divided clock signal. The asynchronous clock phasing detection circuit includes a quantization and logic circuit that generates an output signal indicating when the first divided clock signal and the second divided clock signal are in different states, an oscillator that outputs a control clock signal, a first counter controlled by the control clock signal and configured to count the output signal, and a control circuit that processes a first count signal from the first counter to generate the detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: John Kenney, Robert Schell
  • Patent number: 11435467
    Abstract: During operation, a transmitter in an electronic device may provide, to a transmission path, an electrical signal. This electrical signal may be divided by the power splitter into a first output electrical signal in a first output transmission path and a second output electrical signal in a second output transmission path, which may result in transmitting of the first wireless signal and the second wireless signal by antennas. Because the second output transmission path may include a delay element that provides a delay, the second wireless signal may be delayed relative to the first wireless signal. Moreover, N radar receivers in the electronic device may receive first wireless-return signals corresponding to the first wireless signal and second wireless-return signals corresponding to the second wireless signal. These wireless-return signals may be combined to create a virtual array MIMO radar having an antenna aperture size of 2N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jouya Jadidian, Mohammad B. Vahid Far, Chunshu Li
  • Patent number: 11429133
    Abstract: A mobile terminal, including a clock generator, a first frequency conversion circuit, a first module, a second frequency conversion circuit, and a second module. The first frequency conversion circuit performs frequency conversion on a clock signal generated by the clock generator, to obtain a first clock signal, and outputs the first clock signal to the first module. The second frequency conversion circuit performs frequency conversion on the clock signal generated by the clock generator, to obtain a second clock signal, and outputs the second clock signal to the second module. The mobile terminal has an improved anti-electromagnetic interference capability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tongjie Li, Junyong Zhang, Xiaosong Liu
  • Patent number: 11362667
    Abstract: A device includes a master delay-lock loop (DLL) having a phase frequency detector connected in series with a charge pump that is to generate a control voltage. A slave DLL is coupled to the master DLL and has a delay line including a buffer to receive a slave clock and a series of delay cells coupled between the buffer and an output terminal that is to output a delay clock, the series of delay cells variably controlled by the control voltage. The master DLL and the slave DLL are powered by a power supply that experiences undershoot or overshoot in response to a load transient. A dummy load is coupled between the delay line of the slave DLL and an output of the power supply, the dummy load including an exclusive OR gate that receives, as inputs, a first output of the buffer and the delay clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuyoshi Futamura, Kazuhiro Tomita, Koji Okada, Hiroyuki Matsunami
  • Patent number: 11354481
    Abstract: A phase shifter includes an active region, a first and a second set of gates and a set of contacts. The active region extends in a first direction and is located at a first level. The first and second set of gates each extend in a second direction, overlap the active region and are located at a second level. The second set of gates are positioned along opposite edges of the active region, are configured to receive a first voltage, and are part of a first transistor. The first transistor is configured to adjust a first capacitance of the phase shifter responsive to the first voltage. The set of contacts extend in the second direction, are over the active region, are located at a third level, and are positioned between at least the second set of gates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
    Inventors: Chi-Hsien Lin, Ho-Hsiang Chen, Hsien-Yuan Liao, Tzu-Jin Yeh, Ying-Ta Lu
  • Patent number: 11119530
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide an electronic device. The electronic device can include a first clock gating circuit that is configured to receive a clock signal and selectively transmit a clock pulse of the clock signal when triggered, access circuitry configured to launch configuration data in response to receiving a write request from a management module and trigger the first clock gating circuit to generate a first clock pulse that is delayed by a first predetermined amount of time after the launch of the configuration data by the access circuitry, and a first memory element configured to capture the configuration data in response to receiving the delayed first clock pulse generated by the first clock gating circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: MARVELL ISRAEL (M.I.S.L) LTD.
    Inventors: Alex Pinskiy, Eyal Herzog
  • Patent number: 11115007
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses of a two-phase flip-flop with symmetrical rise and fall times are disclosed herein. An example apparatus may include a clock generator circuit including a two-phase flip-flop circuit configured to provide an output signal. The two-phase flip-flop circuit includes a two-phase flip-flop and a driver circuit. The two-phase flip-flop is configured to provide a first driver control signal and a second driver control signal responsive to a clock signal. The first driver control signal and the second driver control signal are complementary. The driver circuit is configured to provide the output signal responsive to the first driver control signal and the second driver control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler J. Gomm, Yasuo Satoh
  • Patent number: 11106195
    Abstract: A communication unit (S1, S2) for industrial automation for use in a communication system (10) of series-connected communication units (M, S1, S2). The communication unit includes a first input (E1) and a first output (A1) and being configured to receive, via the input (E1), an input serial data stream having payload data and to output, via the output (A1), an output serial data stream (ADS) having payload data. The communication unit (S1, S2) is configured to determine clock information (TI) on the basis of an internal reference clock signal of the communication unit (S1, S2) and an input symbol clock of the input data stream and, using the clock information (TI), to provide the output data stream (ADS) with an output symbol clock whose clock rate is equal to the clock rate of the input symbol clock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: FESTO SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Danny Schneider, Christian Waldeck, Eduard Faber, Thomas Lederer
  • Patent number: 11069384
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for compensation of sense amplifiers, for example, threshold voltage compensation, are disclosed. Prime memory sense amplifiers used for accessing prime memory and redundant memory sense amplifiers used for accessing redundant memory are concurrently compensated while determining whether a memory address is remapped from prime memory to redundant memory. Following the determination, sense amplifiers (e.g., prime memory sense amplifiers and/or redundant memory sense amplifiers) that are not used for accessing the memory corresponding to the memory address are precharged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Shinichi Miyatake, Michael A. Shore, Adam J. Grenzebach
  • Patent number: 11041765
    Abstract: A modulation circuit for voltage to duty-cycle conversion is provided. A first input end and a second input end of a comparator are supplied with a first voltage and a second voltage via a first switch and a second switch respectively. An output end of the comparator outputs a comparison result signal. A charging end of a charging capacitor is connected with a charging current source and a grounding reset module, and is connected with the first input end via a third switch, and is connected with the second input end via a fourth switch. When the comparison result signal flips over, a control module controls the grounding reset module to switch an on-off state of a first switch group including the first switch and the fourth switch and a second switch group including the second switch and the third switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: HANGZHOU VANGO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Zhong Tang, Yun Fang, Xiaopeng Yu, Zheng Shi, Nick Nianxiong Tan
  • Patent number: 11043158
    Abstract: Various systems and methods for managing graphics subsystems are described herein. A system for managing graphics subsystems of a compute device includes a display controller operable to: receive an indication that a first display of the compute device has been activated; enable a power management feature in a display controller, the power management feature to reduce power consumption of the display controller and associated components, and the power management feature to reduce graphics memory bandwidth usage; receive an indication that a second display has been activated with the first display; and maintain the power management feature for at least the first display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Prashant D. Chaudhari, Michael N. Derr, Paul Diefenbaugh, Sameer Kalathil Perazhi, Fong-Shek Lam, Arthur Jeremy Runyan, Jason Tanner
  • Patent number: 11017872
    Abstract: A gate driving circuit includes M levels of shift registers. Each level of shift register includes a first register unit and a second register unit. The first register units of the M levels of shift registers are connected to each other in a cascaded manner, the second register units of the M levels of shift registers are connected to each other in a cascaded manner, and an output end of the first register unit and an output end of the second register unit of each level of shift register are electrically connected to an output end of the level of shift register, where M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yongqian Li, Zhidong Yuan
  • Patent number: 11004415
    Abstract: A shift register comprises: a first switch electrically coupled to a control signal, and to a first node; a second switch electrically coupled to the first node, to a frequency signal, and to a first output signal; a third switch electrically coupled to a second node, to the first output signal, and to a low predetermined voltage level; a fourth switch electrically coupled to a second output signal, to the first node, and to the low predetermined voltage level; a fifth switch electrically coupled to the first node, to the frequency signal, and to a third node; and a pull-down control circuit electrically coupled to the frequency signal, the low predetermined voltage level and the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: HKC Corporation Limited
    Inventor: Jianfeng Shan
  • Patent number: 10963617
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure address systems and methods for fixing clock tree design constraint violations. An initial clock tree is generated. The generating of the initial clock tree comprises routing a clock net using an initial value for a parameter that controls a priority ratio between total route length and a maximum source-to-sink route length in each net of the clock tree. A violation to a clock tree design constraint is detected in the clock net in the clock tree, and based on detecting the violation, a rerouting candidate is generated by rerouting the clock net using an adjusted value for the parameter. A target clock tree is selected based on a comparison of timing characteristics of the rerouting candidate with the clock tree design constraint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Mark Chapman, William Robert Reece, Natarajan Viswanathan, Mehmet Can Yildiz, Gracieli Posser, Zhuo Li
  • Patent number: 10769345
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure address improved systems and methods for core-route-based clock tree wirelength reduction. A method may include accessing an integrated circuit design comprising a clock tree comprising routes that interconnect terminals of a plurality of clock tree instances. The method further includes identifying a core route in the clock tree. The method further includes determining a first offset based on a distance between the first terminal and the core route and determining a second offset based on a distance from the second terminal to the core route. The method further includes determining a target offset based on a combination of the first and second offsets and moving the clock tree instance toward the core route by the target offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Mark Chapman, Zhuo Li
  • Patent number: 10678295
    Abstract: A data capture method and a data capture device are provided. The data capture method includes: receiving a data signal and a clock signal corresponding to the data signal; generating an auxiliary clock signal according to the clock signal, wherein phases of the clock signal and the auxiliary clock signal are different; sampling the data signal respectively according to the clock signal and the auxiliary clock signal to respectively obtain a plurality of data states and a plurality of edge sampling results; generating a plurality of pieces of edge information according to the data states and the corresponding edge sampling results, and performing an accumulation operation according to the edge information to generate a temporary value; and adjusting the clock signal according to the temporary value to generate an adjusted clock signal, and sampling the data signal according to the adjusted clock signal to obtain a plurality of transmission data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Au Optronics Corporation
    Inventors: Jhih-Syuan Fu, Chun-Fan Chung, Chih-Fu Yang
  • Patent number: 10510428
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a shift register circuitry and a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuitry, and a display device. The shift register circuitry includes an input circuit and a plurality of output circuits coupled to the input circuit. The input circuit is coupled to an input signal terminal, and is configured to, under the control of the voltage at the input signal terminal, cause the plurality of output circuits to operate. Each of the plurality of output circuits is coupled to a respective clock signal terminal and a respective output signal terminal, and is configured to operate to couple the clock signal terminal to the output signal terminal so as to output a driving signal at the output signal terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiguo Wang, Jun Fan, Fuqiang Li