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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2006
Fuji Yang, Old Bridge, NJ (US);
Patrick Larsson, Matawan, NJ (US);
Jay O'neill, Freehold, NJ (US);
Agere Systems Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
A multi-channel serializing/deserializing ('serdes') receiver, a method of operating the receiver and an integrated circuit configured as a serdes receiver. In one embodiment, the receiver includes:(1) a central frequency synthesizer configured to provide both in-phase and quadrature-phase clock signals and (2) a plurality of channel-specific receivers coupled to the central frequency synthesizer. Each of the plurality of channel-specific receivers is configured to receive and deserialize a data signal and include a clock recovery circuit having a phase detector and a phase interpolator. The interpolator is configured to receive the clock signals from the central frequency synthesizer and couple the phase detector and the central frequency synthesizer.