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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2014
Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Caleb S. Leung, San Jose, CA (US);
Alan C. Wong, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher J. Borrelli, Campbell, CA (US);
Yu Xu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Yohan Frans, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kun-Yung Chang, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
XILINX, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method relates generally to a receiver. In such a method, a check of a clock and data recovery block of the receiver for a metastable state is performed. A phase input to a phase interpolator of the receiver is changed to cause the clock and data recovery block of the receiver to exit the metastable state within a time limit. To check for the metastable state, a phase difference in received data is determined, and the phase difference is determined to be less than a threshold for the clock and data recovery block being in the metastable state.