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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2011
John OH, San Jose, CA (US);
Samson Tam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Curt Wortman, Ottawa, CA;
Jean Luc Berube, Hull, CA;
John Oh, San Jose, CA (US);
Samson Tam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Curt Wortman, Ottawa, CA;
Jean Luc Berube, Hull, CA;
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Double data rate ('DDR') circuitry or the like is modified or enhanced to include edge detection capability. During edge detection mode the circuitry is supplied with serial training data that includes successive pairs of equal-valued bits. Several, differently-phased, candidate clock signals are used one after another in order of increasing phase to clock the DDR circuitry. Adjacent bits in the training data that should be equal-valued are captured by the DDR circuitry and compared. Any candidate clock signal that causes the bits thus compared to be unequal is flagged as having phase close to edges in the data. The approximate phase of data edges is thereby indicated by the phase (or phases) of the candidate clock signal (or signals) causing the bits compared as described above to be unequal.