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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:
Oct. 31, 2023

Filed:

Feb. 22, 2022
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jieming Qi, Austin, TX (US);

Daniel Mark Dreps, Georgetown, TX (US);

Glen A. Wiedemeier, Austin, TX (US);

Eric John Lukes, Stewartville, MN (US);

Carrie Ellen Cox, Apex, NC (US);

Timothy O. Dickson, Danbury, CT (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/017 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/017 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the invention include receiving, by a controller, an indication of a chip initialization for a duty cycle correction (DCC) circuit, wherein the duty cycle correction circuit includes a main path including a main multiplexer (MUX) having a first input and a main driver circuit, a replica path including a replica MUX having a second input and a replica driver circuit, a selection MUX connected to the main path and the replica path, operating the selection MUX, during a period for the chip initialization, to select the main path as an input to the selection MUX, inputting a pre-defined data pattern to the main path, comparing an output of the selection MUX with the pre-defined data pattern to determine duty cycle issue, and generating an adjustment vector based on the determined duty cycle issue.


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