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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:
Jun. 27, 2006

Filed:

Mar. 10, 2003
Applicants:

Claude R. Gauthier, Cupertino, CA (US);

Shaishav Desai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Claude R. Gauthier, Cupertino, CA (US);

Shaishav Desai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus for adjusting clock skew involves using a plurality of oscillators distributed across the apparatus where at least one of the plurality of oscillators has a frequency dependent on a characteristic of the apparatus. A processor is arranged to adjust a bias generator dependent on the frequency. The bias generator is arranged to adjust a delay through a tunable buffer. The tunable buffer is arranged to propagate a clock signal dependent on the adjustment of the delay through the tunable buffer dependent on the bias generator.


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