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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2005
Applicant:
Boris Boskovic, Toronto, CA;
Inventor:
Boris Boskovic, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
ATI Technologies Inc., Markham, Ontario, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 35/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A variable reference voltage circuit controllable in closed loop, for calibrating off-chip and on-chip drivers, margining and optimizing a reference voltage, for interfaces such as DDR2 or any other suitable interface. In one example, the on-chip variable reference voltage circuit, coupled to external fixed reference voltage, includes control logic and an array of switchable resistor elements (pull-up and pull-down resistors) that may each be selectively switched in or out of the circuit to change the reference voltage being supplied to an on-chip receiver.