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Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017

Filed:

Sep. 12, 2014
Applicant:

Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventor:

Reza Navid, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Rambus Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/087 (2006.01); H03L 7/08 (2006.01); H03L 7/081 (2006.01); H03L 7/083 (2006.01); H03L 7/24 (2006.01); H04B 1/22 (2006.01); H04B 1/7085 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/0807 (2013.01); H03L 7/083 (2013.01); H03L 7/0812 (2013.01); H03L 7/0814 (2013.01); H03L 7/24 (2013.01); H04B 1/22 (2013.01); H04B 1/7085 (2013.01);
Abstract

A source-synchronous clocking signal is sampled by an edge sampler triggered by a phase-adjusted version of the clocking signal. The output of the edge sampler is used as a phase-error indicator for a filtered feedback loop that aligns the phase-adjusted clocking signal to minimize, on average, the difference between the received source-synchronous clocking signal and the phase-adjusted version of the clocking signal minus the setup time of the sampler. This forms a delay-locked loop configuration. The phase adjustment information used to produce the aligned phase-adjusted clocking signal is then to produce a receiver clocking signal that is used to sample the source-synchronous data signal.


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