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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2010
Applicants:
Marios C. Papaefthymiou, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Alexander Ishii, Princeton, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Marios C. Papaefthymiou, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Alexander Ishii, Princeton, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Cyclos Semiconductor, Inc., Berkeley, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/04 (2006.01); H03H 11/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A resonant clock distribution network architecture is proposed that uses clock drivers of programmable size and reference clocks of programmable duty cycle to achieve a target clock rise time and clock amplitude with low energy consumption when operating in any one of multiple clock frequencies in resonant or non-resonant mode. Such a network is generally applicable to semiconductor devices with various clock frequencies, and high-performance and low-power clocking requirements such as microprocessors, ASICs, and SOCs.