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Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 03, 2014
Applicant:

Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);

Inventors:

Robert P. Masleid, Monte Sereno, CA (US);

Anand Dixit, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/00 (2006.01); H03K 5/14 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/00 (2013.01); H03K 5/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

A phase alignment circuit is disclosed. In one embodiment, the circuit includes a register configured to capture and store, in parallel from a delay unit, a plurality of samples of a first signal, responsive to a change of state of a second signal. The circuit further includes a detection circuit configured to detect a bit position in the register at which a state change of the first signal occurs based on a concurrent evaluation of all samples of the first signal. Selection circuitry in the phase alignment circuit is configured to select an output from a one of a plurality of delay elements of the delay unit based on in the bit position at which the state change was detected. The selection circuitry is configured to output a third signal that is a delayed version of the first signal.


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