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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2016
Applicant:
Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Marko Aleksić, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian S. Leibowitz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
RAMBUS INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 11/00 (2006.01); H03L 7/099 (2006.01); H03L 7/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/24 (2013.01); H03L 7/099 (2013.01); H03L 7/0995 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses featuring an injection-locked oscillator (ILO) are described. In some embodiments, an ILO can have multiple injection points and a free-running frequency that is capable of being adjusted based on a control signal. In some embodiments, each injection point of an ILO can correspond to a phase tuning range. In some embodiments, a circuit can include circuitry to detect a phase boundary between two adjacent phase tuning ranges. In some embodiments, a circuit can use the detected phase boundary to switch between the two adjacent phase tuning ranges.