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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:
Jan. 21, 2003

Filed:

Aug. 08, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:

Robert W. Moss, Longmont, CO (US);

Peter Korger, Frederick, CO (US);

Assignee:

LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 2/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 2/500 ;
Abstract

A method and apparatus are provided for capturing data read from a memory device that is aligned with respect to a clock strobe signal originating from the memory device, which has constraints with respect to a local clock signal supplied to the memory device. The apparatus includes a circuit for capturing the data read from the memory device relative to the clock strobe signal to produce captured read data, a circuit for latching the captured read data relative to a sample clock signal, and a circuit for measuring a phase difference between the sample clock signal and the clock strobe signal and adjusting a phase of the sample clock signal as a function of the phase difference.


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