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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2007
Jacob S. Schneider, Austin, TX (US);
Navneet Dour, Folsom, CA (US);
Harishankar Sridharan, Folsom, CA (US);
Jacob S. Schneider, Austin, TX (US);
Navneet Dour, Folsom, CA (US);
Harishankar Sridharan, Folsom, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a wake-up circuit for a bias input of a circuit such as a slave DLL circuit, to allow it to be placed in a reduced power mode and be 'awoken' (brought up to a control bias level) in a sufficiently small enough amount of time. The wake-up circuit couples a bias input node to a voltage level that is higher then the control bias level in response to a wake-up event, and then it couples the control bias node to the bias input node in response to their voltage levels being sufficiently close to one another.