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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2017
Applicant:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Inventors:
Wing-Fai Loke, San Jose, CA (US);
Chih-Wei Yao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, , KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/06 (2006.01); H03M 1/10 (2006.01); H03M 1/38 (2006.01); G04F 10/00 (2006.01); H03M 1/12 (2006.01); H03L 7/099 (2006.01); H03L 7/087 (2006.01); G06F 17/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/1009 (2013.01); G04F 10/005 (2013.01); G06F 17/5081 (2013.01); H03L 7/087 (2013.01); H03L 7/0995 (2013.01); H03M 1/1245 (2013.01); H03M 1/38 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus and a method. The apparatus includes a counter array; a ring oscillator that is electrically coupled to the counter array, where the counter array counts a number of cycles in the ring oscillator; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) driver that is electrically coupled to the ring oscillator; and an ADC that is electrically coupled to the ADC driver, where an output of the ADC is electrically coupled to the ring oscillator.