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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2013
Applicant:

Nxp B.v., Eindhoven, NL;

Inventors:

Ajay Kapoor, Veldhoven, NL;

Ralf Malzahn, Seevetal, DE;

Rinze Ida Mechtildis Peter Meijer, Herkenbosch, NL;

Peter Thueringer, Graz, AT;

Assignee:

NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/04 (2006.01); H03K 3/012 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 3/012 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of a clock distribution device and a method of clock distribution are described. In one embodiment, a clock distribution device includes a stacked clock driver circuit configured to perform clock signal charge recycling on input clock signals that swing between different voltage ranges and a load circuit. The stacked clock driver circuit includes stacked driver circuits configured to generate output clock signals that swing between the different voltage ranges. The load circuit includes load networks of different semiconductor types. Each of the load networks are configured to be driven by one of the output clock signals. Other embodiments are also described.


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