Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Sungkyunkwan University

Rambus Inc.

Skhynix Inc.

Jung-Hoon Chun

Dae Han Kwon

Kyu Dong Hwang

Yoonmyung Lee

Jaewoo Park

Dongsuk Kang

Jared L Zerbe

Jaeha Kim

Chisung Bae

Xingchao C Yuan

Haechang Lee

Hao Shi

Jaehong Jung

Tae-Jin Kim

Sung-Ha Kim

June-Hee Lee

Sangjoon Kim

Jung-Hee Lee

Hyeran Kim

Jongshin Shin

Won-Ho Choi

Jae Youl Lee

Jaemin Choi

Young-Kyun Jeong

Jonghan Kim

Hyun Wook Lim

YoungKyun Jeong

Dongchul Choi

Xuefan Jin

Junyeol Lee

Jiho Song

Jua Lee

A device with a neural network includes: a synaptic memory cell comprising a resistive memory element, which is disposed along an output line and which has either one of a first resistance value and a second resistance value, and configured to generate a column signal based on the resistive memory element and an input signal in response to the input signal being received through an input line; a reference memory cell comprising a reference memory element, which is disposed along a reference line and which has the second resistance value different from the first resistance value, and configured to generate a reference signal based on the reference memory element and the input signal; and an output circuit configured to generate an output signal for the output line from the column signal and the reference signal.

Device with neural network

An output driver includes a pre driver including pre driving circuits, each including first and second pre pumps, and a main driver including main driving circuits, each including first and second main pumps. Each of the first and second pre pumps includes a first driving capacitor, and each of the first and second main pumps includes a second driving capacitor. During a first half cycle of a clock signal, the first pre pump and the first main pump perform a precharge operation, and the second pre pump and the second main pump perform a first driving operation, and during a second half cycle of the clock signal, the first pre pump and the first main pump perform the first driving operation, and the second pre pump and the second main pump perform the precharge operation. Capacitances of the first and second driving capacitors are different.

Output driver and semiconductor memory device having the same

A duobinary receiver includes a signal dividing circuit configured to output a plurality of data by dividing an input signal according to a plurality of multi-phase sampling clocks signals; a level detecting circuit configured to output a plurality of state signals respectively corresponding to duobinary levels of the plurality of data; and a data converting circuit configured to decode the plurality of state signals to output a corresponding plurality of bits.

Duobinary receiver for receiving a duobinary signal

A transceiver includes a duobinary conversion circuit configured to determine a level of an input signal which is a duobinary signal according to an intermediate voltage, a first reference voltage higher than the intermediate voltage, and a second reference voltage lower than the intermediate voltage, and to convert the input signal into a non-return-to-zero (NRZ) signal; and a control circuit configured to generate one or more control signals to substantially remove inter-symbol interference (ISI) between symbols of the input signal, and to adjust the first reference voltage, or the second reference voltage, or both according to the level of the input signal.

Transceiver processing duobinary signal and operating method thereof

A transmitter provides a duobinary signal corresponding to one of level 0, level 1, and level 2 based on first data and second data, and includes a pull-up driving circuit including a plurality of pull-up resistors selectively coupled between a first power source and a transmission node according to the first data and the second data; and a pull-down driving circuit including a plurality of pull-down resistors selectively coupled between the transmission node and a second power source, wherein at least one of the plurality of pull-up resistors is coupled between the first power source and the transmission node both when the first data is activated and when the second data is activated, or at least one of the plurality of pull-down resistors is coupled between the second power source and the transmission node both when the first data is activated and when the second data is activated.

Transmitter for transmitting a duobinary signal

A signal receiving device may not need to consider jitter characteristics of a received signal by including a transition detecting device which receives first to third input signals having different signal levels for each unit interval, compares whether a signal level of a first differential signal, which is a differential signal between the first input signal and the second input signal among the first to third input signals, is greater than a first reference signal level to output a first comparison signal, and compares whether the signal level of the first differential signal is greater than a second reference signal level different from the first reference signal level to output a second comparison signal, and a clock data recovering device which recovers a clock signal embedded in the first to third input signals on the basis of the first and second comparison signals to output the recovery clock signal.

Signal receiving device and method of recovering clock and calibration of the device

An oscillator includes a constant current generator configured to generate a constant current by maintaining a predetermined potential difference between both a first end and a second end of a resistor, and an oscillating element configured to output a clock signal corresponding to a charge and discharge cycle of a capacitor based on a bias current corresponding to the constant current.

Low power RC oscillator with switched bias current

A serial communication interface circuit includes a transmitter configured to convert first parallel data into first serial data and transmit the first serial data through an output port; a receiver configured to receive second serial data through an input port and convert the second serial data into second parallel data; a test controller configured to generate at least one test control signal; and an embedded external loopback circuit configured to form an external loopback path between the output port and the input port to receive the first serial data and output the second serial data according to at least one channel model in response to the at least one test control signal in a test mode.

Serial communication interface circuit performing external loopback test and electrical device including the same

An oscillator using a supply regulation loop and a method of operating the oscillator are provided. The oscillator includes a reference voltage generator configured to generate reference voltages from a supply voltage, a supply regulation loop circuit including a first operational amplifier and a transistor, the first operational amplifier being configured to receive a first reference voltage of the reference voltages, and the transistor being connected to an output terminal of the first operational amplifier, and a frequency locked loop (FLL) circuit configured to generate a clock signal, based on an input voltage determined based on a current flowing in the transistor and a second reference voltage of the reference voltages, wherein the first operational amplifier may include an input terminal configured to receive the first reference voltage and to receive negative feedback from the transistor, and the output terminal being configured to generate an output voltage independent of noise of the supply voltage.

Oscillator using supply regulation loop and operating method thereof

A data interface includes a first sampler sampling a first bitset and a second sampler sampling a second bitset. The first bitset includes a first bit which is included in a first image data and a third bit which is included in a second image, and the second bitset includes a second bit which is included in the first image data and is a higher-order bit than the first bit and a fourth bit which is included in the second image data and is a higher-order bit than the third bit. The data interface further includes a clock generator configured to adjust a sampling timing of the first and second bitsets based on a multi-phase clock, and a clock data recovery (CDR) circuit shared by the first sampler, the second sampler and configured to output the multi-phase clock to the clock generator.

Data interface and data transmission method

A signaling system supports main and auxiliary communication channels between integrated circuits in the same direction over a single link. An equalizing transmitter applies appropriate filter coefficients to minimize the impact of intersymbol interference when transmitting the main data over a communication channel. The transmitter modulates at least one of the filter coefficients with the auxiliary data to induce apparent ISI in the transmitted signal. A main receiver ignores the apparent ISI to recover the main data, while an auxiliary receiver detects and demodulates the apparent ISI to recover the auxiliary data. The auxiliary data may be encoded using spread-spectrum techniques to reduce the impact of the auxiliary data on the main data.

Methods and systems for transmitting data by modulating transmitter filter  coefficients

A clock data recovery circuit includes a sampler to sample incoming data bits, a phase detector to generate an edge position signal and a polarity signal based on the sampled incoming data, a finite state machine to save a current edge position state, a polarity decision unit to generate a polarity inversion signal to invert the polarity signal, a gain controller to generate a tracking bandwidth signal, a recovery loop configured to adjust an edge offset of the reference clock, and a bit selector configured to recover the incoming data. The clock data recovery circuit has a first latency at a first operation mode and a second latency at a second operation mode. The phase detector in the clock data recovery circuit may include a first phase detector and a second detector combined together for a low latency and low lock time of the clock data recovery circuit.

Hybrid clock and data recovery circuit and system including the same

Methods and systems for transmitting data by modulating transmitter filter coefficients

In some embodiments, the semiconductor package includes a substrate having multiple layers, from a first layer to a final layer, a die coupled to the first layer, an electrical connector such as a solder ball coupled to the final layer, and a spiral trace disposed and electrically coupled between the die and the electrical connector. Inductance of the spiral trace is selected such that the package has a predetermined impedance. Material, cross-sectional area, number and density of windings, and total overall length of the spiral trace are selected accordingly. In other embodiments, the semiconductor package includes a substrate with multiple layers; a die coupled to the first of the layers; an electrical connector coupled to the final layer; and a spiral trace, in or on the substrate. The spiral trace is near the die, and electrically coupled between the die and the electrical connector.

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Jung-Hoon Chun