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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1991
Filed:
Apr. 20, 1989
Jeffrey H Fischer, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Lawrence J Grasso, Austin, TX (US);
Dale E Hoffman, Stormville, NY (US);
Daniel E Skooglund, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Diane K Young, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of operating a delay circuit to impose a selected delay on an electronic signal the delay circuit comprising a plurality of delay stages and means for directing the electronic signal through selected ones of the delay stages, the method comprising the steps of: measuring the actual signal delay through each of the delay stages; and selecting, based on the signal delays obtained in the measuring step, the delay stages through which the electronic signal is directed.