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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 03, 2003
Jared Levan Zerbe, Woodside, CA (US);
Kevin S. Donnelly, Los Altos, CA (US);
Stefanos Sidiropoulos, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Donald C. Stark, Los Altos, CA (US);
Mark A. Horowitz, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Leung Yu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Roxanne VU, San Jose, CA (US);
Jun Kim, Redwood City, CA (US);
Bruno W. Garlepp, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tsyr-chyang Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Benedict Chung-kwong Lau, San Jose, CA (US);
Jared LeVan Zerbe, Woodside, CA (US);
Kevin S. Donnelly, Los Altos, CA (US);
Stefanos Sidiropoulos, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Donald C. Stark, Los Altos, CA (US);
Mark A. Horowitz, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Leung Yu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Roxanne Vu, San Jose, CA (US);
Jun Kim, Redwood City, CA (US);
Bruno W. Garlepp, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tsyr-Chyang Ho, San Jose, CA (US);
Benedict Chung-Kwong Lau, San Jose, CA (US);
Rambus Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
An integrated circuit device includes a receiver, a register and a clock circuit. The receiver samples data from an external signal line in response to an internal clock signal. The register stores a value that represents a timing offset to adjust the time at which the data is sampled. The clock circuit generates the internal clock signal such that the internal clock signal maintains a controlled timing relationship with respect to an external clock signal. The clock circuit includes an interpolator that phase mixes a set of reference clock signals such that the internal clock signal is phase offset in accordance with the value.