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Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 02, 2018
Applicants:

SK Hynix Inc., Icheon, KR;

Seoul National University R&db Foundation, Seoul, KR;

Inventors:

Deog-Kyoon Jeong, Seoul, KR;

Suhwan Kim, Seoul, KR;

Joo-Hyung Chae, Seoul, KR;

Assignees:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 5/26 (2006.01); H03K 3/03 (2006.01); G01R 25/00 (2006.01); H03H 7/06 (2006.01); H03K 17/687 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 5/26 (2013.01); G01R 25/00 (2013.01); H03H 7/06 (2013.01); H03K 3/0315 (2013.01); H03K 17/687 (2013.01);
Abstract

A duty cycle detector includes a first ring oscillator suitable for including an odd number of first inverters and generating a first periodic signal by using the first inverters, at least one inverter among the first inverters being enabled during a time interval when a clock has a first value, a second ring oscillator including an odd number of second inverters and suitable for generating a second periodic signal using the second inverters, at least one inverter among the second inverters being enabled during a time interval when the clock has a second value. The duty cycle detector further includes a frequency comparator suitable for comparing a frequency of the first periodic signal with a frequency of the second periodic signal and generating a duty cycle detection signal of the clock.


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