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Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2022

Filed:

Feb. 25, 2021
Applicant:

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Shiv Mathur, Bangalore, IN;

Ashish Savadia, Bangalore, IN;

Tejaswini K, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 1/02 (2006.01); H03F 3/45 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 1/0205 (2013.01); H03F 3/45269 (2013.01);
Abstract

Storage devices are capable of utilizing receiver devices with native devices configured to support lower voltage supplies for higher read performances. The receiver device may include a current source circuit, first and second stage circuits, and a duty cycle balancer circuit. The first stage circuit may utilize first and second native devices with a threshold voltage (VTH) that enables proper lower voltage operations in saturation at high speeds. The current source stage circuit may utilize a third native device to track a transconductance and provide a reference current that becomes proportional to VTH to maintain tighter gain across process, variation, and temperature (PVT). The second stage circuit may utilize a current folding stage to provide a high gain for faster conversion of intermediate signals. The duty cycle balancer may utilize a fourth native device to balance a rise and fall delay skew across the PVT to maintain tighter duty cycle.


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