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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:
Aug. 20, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 17, 2020
Applicant:

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd., Hsinchu, TW;

Inventors:

Tsung-Hsien Tsai, Taoyuan County, TW;

Ruey-Bin Sheen, Taichung, TW;

Chih-Hsien Chang, New Taipei, TW;

Cheng-Hsiang Hsieh, Taipei, TW;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 29/02 (2006.01); G01R 25/00 (2006.01); H03K 3/037 (2006.01); H03K 5/00 (2006.01); H03K 19/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 29/023 (2013.01); G01R 25/005 (2013.01); H03K 3/037 (2013.01); H03K 5/00 (2013.01); H03K 19/21 (2013.01); H03K 2005/00058 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods, and circuits for determining a duty cycle of a periodic input signal are provided. A delay element is configured to delay the periodic input signal based on a digital control word. A digital circuit is configured to generate a first digital control word used to delay the periodic input signal a first amount of time corresponding to a period of the periodic input signal, generate a second digital control word used to delay the periodic input signal a second amount of time corresponding to a portion of the periodic input signal having a logic-level high value, and generate a third digital control word used to delay the periodic input signal a third amount of time corresponding to a portion of the periodic input signal having a logic-level low value. A controller is configured to determine the duty cycle based on the first, second, and third digital control words.


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