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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ronald R. Denny, Brooklyn Center, MN (US);
Chris H. Simon, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Joan E. Zak, Savage, MN (US);
Assignee:
General Dynamics Information Systems, Inc., Bloomington, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 ; H04L 2/536 ; H04L 2/540 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 ; H04L 2/536 ; H04L 2/540 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for adjusting the clock delay in systems with multiple integrated circuits has a controller, a programmable clock generator and a plurality of integrated circuits, each integrated circuit including a data flip-flop, a programmable delay and a clock-fanout tree, wherein the clock delay in the integrated circuits is adjusted to match the inherent delay in the integrated circuit having the longest inherent delay.