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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2021
Applicant:

Nxp Usa, Inc., Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Siamak Delshadpour, Phoenix, AZ (US);

Xu Zhang, Chandler, AZ (US);

Xiaoqun Liu, Chandler, AZ (US);

Kenneth Jaramillo, Gilbert, AZ (US);

Assignee:

NXP USA, Inc., Eindhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 19/094 (2006.01); G01R 31/317 (2006.01); H03K 19/20 (2006.01); H03K 19/0185 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/31725 (2013.01); H03K 19/018521 (2013.01); H03K 19/20 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments relate to a skew detector circuit, including: a logic circuit having two inputs configured to generate a logic 1 output when the two inputs have a logic 0 value and generator a logic 0 output when the two input have a logic 1 value; a first level shifter configured to increase the output of the logic circuit to a higher voltage; a second level shifter configured to increase the output of the first level shifter to a higher voltage; and a voltage regulator configured to produce a first voltage for the logic circuit, a second voltage for the first level shifter, and a third voltage for the second level shift.


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