North Carolina State University

Ralph K Cavin, Iii

Wentai Liu

Thomas A Hughes, Jr

Rizwan Bashirullah

Carl T Gray

An adaptive bandwidth bus is provided that switches between a current mode of operation and a voltage mode of operation. Furthermore, related methods include transmitting a data signal in a current mode or a voltage mode and transmitting a control signal to indicate whether the signal should be transmitted in the current mode or the voltage mode.

Integrated circuit devices having on-chip adaptive bandwidth buses and related methods

A data signal may be sampled at high speed using a clock signal by propagating the data signal and the clock signal through a series of data and clock delay elements, respectively, and latching the corresponding delayed data and clock signals. The sampling speed is thereby controlled by the relative skew between the clock and data signals, which can be made relatively small and may be limited only by noise and random variations in fabrication. Accordingly, high speed sampling may be obtained.

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Cary, NC, United States of America

Ralph K Cavin, Iii