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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:
Apr. 22, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2006
David William Boerstler, Round Rock, TX (US);
Eskinder Hailu, Austin, TX (US);
Jieming Qi, Austin, TX (US);
Bin Wan, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
David William Boerstler, Round Rock, TX (US);
Eskinder Hailu, Austin, TX (US);
Jieming Qi, Austin, TX (US);
Bin Wan, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the disclosed methodology and apparatus measure relative duty cycle information of a clock signal with respect to an input node as the clock signal travels to selected nodes of a clock distribution network on an electronic circuit. The apparatus operates in a benchmark mode to determine benchmark duty cycle information and then subsequently operates an a relative mode to determine relative duty cycle information of the clock signal at a selected node in comparison to the clock signal at an external input node.
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