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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. 31, 2006

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2000
Applicants:

Terry D. Little, Austin, TX (US);

Bertrand J. Williams, Austin, TX (US);

Kamal Dalmia, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Timothy D. Jordan, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Terry D. Little, Austin, TX (US);

Bertrand J. Williams, Austin, TX (US);

Kamal Dalmia, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Timothy D. Jordan, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Cypress Semiconductor Corp., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of synchronizing a clock signal to a data signal, comprising the steps of (A) detecting a first edge of the data signal and a position of the first edge, (B) determining if the position is within a zone, (C) if the edge is not within the zone, adjusting the clock signal towards the position of the edge, (D) detecting a second edge of the data signal and a position of the second edge, (E) determining a in value indicating a position of the second edge, (F) adding the first value to a second value, wherein the second value indicates a position of a third edge of the data signal and (G) adjusting the clock signal based on the result of step (F).


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