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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:
May. 08, 2007

Filed:

Jul. 01, 2005
Applicants:

Derrick Sai-tang Butt, San Leandro, CA (US);

Hui-yin Seto, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Derrick Sai-Tang Butt, San Leandro, CA (US);

Hui-Yin Seto, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method for calibrating read data strobe gating including the steps of: (A) performing a coarse timing adjustment configured to determine a coarse delay setting that produces invalid data, (B) performing a medium timing adjustment configured to adjust a medium delay setting and the coarse delay setting until valid data is detected, (C) performing a fine timing adjustment configured to adjust the medium delay setting and a fine delay setting until valid data is detected and (D) adding one-half cycle to a gating delay determined by the coarse, the medium and the fine delay settings.


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