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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2018
Inphi Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Mrunmay Talegaonkar, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Jorge Pernillo, Daly City, CA (US);
Junyi Sun, Singapore, SG;
Praveen Prabha, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Chang-Feng Loi, Singapore, SG;
Yu Liao, Longmont, CO (US);
Jamal Riani, Fremont, CA (US);
Belal Helal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Aaron Buchwald, Newport Beach, CA (US);
INPHI CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to data communication and electrical circuits. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide a clock and data recovery (CDR) architecture implementation for high data rate wireline communication links. In an embodiment, a CDR device includes a phase detector, a loop filter, and a fractional-N PLL. The fractional-N PLL generates output clock signal based on output of the loop filter. There are other embodiments as well.