Apple Inc.

Huaimin Li

Pradeep R Trivedi

Ajay Bhatia

Bo Tang

Fabien S Faure

Shy Hamami

Yaron Cohen

An apparatus includes an oscillator circuit, a counter circuit, and a control circuit. The oscillator circuit may receive an input clock signal and an inverse input clock signal, and, for a first time period, may generate an oscillator output signal with a frequency based on a duty cycle of the input clock signal. For a second time period, the oscillator circuit may generate the oscillator output signal with a frequency based on a duty cycle of the inverse input clock signal. The counter circuit may count oscillations of the oscillator output signal over the first time period and over the second time period. The control circuit may determine, based on the oscillations counted by the counter circuit during the first time period and the second time period, a duty cycle value indicative of the duty cycle of the input clock signal.

Digital on-chip duty cycle monitoring device

Embodiments of an apparatus are disclosed that may allow for the translation of signals from one power domain to another with well-balanced rise and fall times over a wide operational range. The apparatus may include an input buffer, a voltage shift circuit, and output circuit, and an output driver. The input buffer may be configured to generate a buffered version and delayed inverted version of an external signal at a first voltage level. The voltage shift circuit may be configured to generate two internal signals at a second voltage level dependent upon the output signals of the input buffer. The output circuit may be configured to generate two output driver signals at the second voltage level dependent upon the output signals of the voltage shift circuit. The output driver circuit may be configured to generate an output signal at the second voltage level dependent on the two output driver signals.

Balanced level shifter with wide operation range

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