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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 28, 2006
Jun-bae Kim, Seoul, KR;
Hyun-ju Lee, Yongin-si, KR;
Jun-Bae Kim, Seoul, KR;
Hyun-Ju Lee, Yongin-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
A delay locked loop for generating an internal clock signal locked to an external clock signal includes: a phase detector for detecting a phase difference between the external clock signal and the internal clock signal; a delay unit controller for generating a control signal and a selection signal in response to an output signal of the phase detector; a variable delay device (VDD), responsive to the control signal and a selection signal, to produce a delayed version of the external clock signal on a VDD output line, the variable delay device being configured such that, if the external clock signal undergoes a change from a first frequency to a second frequency significantly different than the first frequency, then a resultant load on the VDD output line nonetheless remains substantially the same.