Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Signal converting – shaping – or generating – Rectangular or pulse waveform width control
Reexamination Certificate
2007-08-21
2007-08-21
Wells, Kenneth B. (Department: 2816)
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Signal converting, shaping, or generating
Rectangular or pulse waveform width control
C327S041000, C327S158000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11196581
ABSTRACT:
A reduced-frequency, 50% duty cycle corrector (DCC) circuit may be used in an electronic device (e.g., a memory chip) to generate output clocks with 50% duty cycle irrespective of the duty cycle of the clock input to the DCC circuit. A DCC initialization scheme selectively activates the frequency division and edge detection operations in the DCC based on the lock status of the DCC during initialization. Upon initialization, the frequency division and edge detection operations are turned off or disabled. After the DCC is properly locked, these operations are enabled to obtain the 50% duty cycle output clock. This approach initializes the reduced-frequency DCC without output glitches, which can affect locking of a DLL with which the DCC may be used. The prevention of instability in locking of the DCC and DLL upon system initialization results in swift establishment of DCC and DLL locks without significant power consumption or loss of clock cycles. Once the DCC is locked during its initialization, the reduced-frequency operation of DCC further saves current consumption. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims.
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Jones Day
Luu An T.
Micro)n Technology, Inc.
Pencoske Edward L.
Wells Kenneth B.
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