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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2014
Applicant:
Microchip Technology Incorporated, Chandler, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY INCORPORATED, Chandler, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/00 (2006.01); H04L 7/033 (2006.01); H04L 7/04 (2006.01); H04L 25/49 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/0079 (2013.01); H04L 7/0331 (2013.01); H04L 7/044 (2013.01); H04L 25/49 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system for determining a unit time of a serial transmission protocol, wherein the serial transmission protocol defines a unit time (UT) by transmitting a calibration pulse having a predetermined length of N*UT and wherein a receiver is operated by system clock, includes: a clock divider for dividing the system dock by M, wherein M evenly divides N, and a detector for sampling a received data nibble length by using a dithered sampling clock.