Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Lattice Semiconductor Corporation

Chwei-po Chew

Gabriel M Li

Paul H Scott

Gyudong Kim

Min-Kyu Kim

Fei Song

Xiaozhi Lin

Gary Giust

Sung-Ki Min

Dusan Vecera

Johnson Tsai

Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to compensation for common mode signal swing. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a connector for the transfer of the data, the connector including connections for a first set of one or more conductors; a receiver for the reception of data via the connector, the received data including a first signal and a second signal transmitted via the set of one or more conductors, the second signal being a common mode signal modulating the first signal, the receiver including an amplifier to amplify the received data with a positive gain; and a common mode compensation circuit to compensate for a voltage swing of the common mode signal in the amplified received data. The common mode compensation circuit is to sense the common mode signal, amplify the sensed common mode signal with a negative gain, and feed back the amplified common mode to output nodes of the receiver.

Compensation scheme for MHL common mode clock swing

A lock-aid circuit and method is applied to a phase lock loop (PLL) having a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), wherein the lock aid is coupled with the input of the VCO. In one example, the lock aid includes a Schmitt trigger having an output, a switch having an output and an input coupled to the output of the Schmitt trigger, and a voltage controlled current source coupled with the output of the switch.

Circuit and method to speed up PLL lock-time and prohibit frequency runaway

An apparatus and a method for improving production yield of phase locked loops (PLLs) have been disclosed. One embodiment of the apparatus includes a PLL comprising a charge pump and an offset compensation circuit coupled to the charge pump to provide an offset current to the charge pump to reduce a static phase error of the PLL caused by a mismatch in at least one of a process variation, a voltage, and a temperature. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Method and an apparatus to improve production yield of phase locked loops

According to embodiments of the invention, temperature, current, or other physical quantities associated with an integrated circuit, which can also include a processor, may be converted to a digital signal, and that digital signal used to choose a corresponding frequency offset that is added to any pre-established overclocking frequency. Embodiments of the invention allow a user to specify a dynamic range between which the frequency offset is bounded during overclocking of the integrated circuit. The programmable lower limit specifies the frequency where the integrated circuit begins to overclock. The programmable upper limit specifies the maximum overclocking frequency that is allowed. Setting the lower limit to be equal to the upper limit forces overclocking to occur at only the specified value.

Apparatus and method for dynamic overclocking

Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method for recovering the clock and data signals in a transmitted data signal In a computer network. The method comprises accessing a transmitted a data signal at a receiver in the network, locking the receiver on a data signal transmission frequency, then locking the receiver on a data signal transition phase in the transmitted data signal and adjusting the signal transition phase locking by reference to the transition density of the transmitted data signal. Embodiments adjust the transition phase locking by adjusting the tail current of a Gm cell in a phase locked loop in the receiver, based on the received data signal transition density.

Clock data recovery method and circuit for network communication

A method and an apparatus to bias a charge pump in a phase locked loop (PLL) to compensate a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) gain have been disclosed. One embodiment of the apparatus includes a PLL comprising a charge pump, the charge pump comprising an input and an output, and a bias circuit coupled to the input of the charge pump, the bias circuit comprising a sensor circuit to sense a temperature and at least one of a voltage and a process variation and a current reference circuit coupled to the sensor circuit.

Method and an apparatus to bias a charge pump in a phase locked loop to compensate a VCO gain

A phase shift and duty cycle correction circuit is disclosed herein as comprising a programmable digital to analog converter (DAC), a storage device (e.g., a capacitor), a charge sub-circuit and dump sub-circuit for charging and discharging the storage device, respectively, a comparator, and a clock driver circuit. A linearly increasing (or ramped) voltage waveform is generated within the storage device by the charging and discharging actions of the charge and dump sub-circuits; a periodic process which is controlled by opposite phases of the input clock. By programming the DAC control input to change the slicing threshold of the ramped waveform, the circuit and method described herein provides a means for programmable phase shifting and duty cycle correction.

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