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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2000
Satish Menon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A clock edge placement circuit for implementing source synchronous communication between integrated circuit devices. The clock edge placement circuit includes a delay line having an input to receive a clock signal from an external clock source. A corresponding output is included to provide the clock signal to external logic elements. The delay line structure adapted to add a propagation delay to the input, wherein the propagation delay is sized such that the phase of the clock signal is adjusted to control synchronous sampling by the external logic elements. The delay line is adapted to dynamically adjust the delay such that the phase of the clock signal at the output remains adjusted to control synchronous sampling by the external logic as variables affecting the phase of the clock signal change over time. A series of taps are included within the delay line. The delay line uses the series of taps to add a variable delay for adjusting the phase of the clock signal. Each tap is configured to add an incremental delay to the input to generate the variable delay.