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Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hwong-Kwo Lin, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Lei Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Spencer Gold, Westford, MA (US);

Zhenye Jiang, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 7/22 (2006.01); G11C 11/419 (2006.01); G11C 11/4076 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/419 (2013.01); G11C 7/22 (2013.01); G11C 7/222 (2013.01); G11C 11/4076 (2013.01);
Abstract

A configurable delay circuit and a method of clock buffering. One embodiment of the configurable delay circuit includes: (1) a first delay stage electrically couplable in series to a second delay stage, the first delay stage and the second delay stage each having an input port electrically coupled to a signal source, and (2) a delay path select circuit electrically coupled between the first delay stage and the second delay stage, and operable to select between a delay path including the first delay stage and another delay path including the first delay stage and the second delay stage.


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