Circuit, chip and semiconductor device
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Abstract
A circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a time-to-digital converter (TDC), and an evaluation circuit coupled to the TDC and a phase-locked loop (PLL) external to the circuit.
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TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD | HSIN-CHU 300-77 |
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- 2022 Application Filing Year
- H03L Class
- 440 Applications Filed
- 300 Patents Issued To-Date
- 68.19 % Issued To-Date
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Inventor Name | Address | # of filed Patents | Total Citations |
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Chang, Chih-Hsien | New Taipei, TW | 152 | 371 |
# of filed Patents : 152 Total Citations : 371 | |||
Li, Chao Chieh | Hsinchu, TW | 20 | 33 |
# of filed Patents : 20 Total Citations : 33 | |||
Liao, Chia-Chun | Taipei, TW | 47 | 105 |
# of filed Patents : 47 Total Citations : 105 | |||
Yuan, Min-Shueh | Hsinchu, TW | 44 | 121 |
# of filed Patents : 44 Total Citations : 121 |
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US Patent Application No: 12184751
Wide-range inductor-based delay-cell and area efficient termination switch control
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.
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