Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Delay line circuit and method of operating the same
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Application No.: US16005435Application Date: 2018-06-11
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Publication No.: US10367491B2Publication Date: 2019-07-30
- Inventor: Ming-Chieh Huang , Chan-Hong Chern , Tsung-Ching (Jim) Huang , Chih-Chang Lin , Tien-Chun Yang
- Applicant: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
- Applicant Address: TW Hsinchu
- Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsinchu
- Agency: Hauptmann Ham, LLP
- Main IPC: H03L7/00
- IPC: H03L7/00 ; H03L7/06 ; H03K3/42 ; G06G7/16 ; H03L7/08 ; H03K5/13 ; H03K5/134 ; H03K5/14 ; H03K5/00

Abstract:
A delay line circuit including: a coarse-tuning arrangement, including delay units, the coarse-tuning arrangement being configured to coarsely-tune an input signal by transferring the input signal through a selected number of the delay units and thereby producing a first output signal; and a fine-tuning arrangement configured to receive the first output signal at a beginning of a signal path which includes at least three serially-connected inverters, finely-tune the first output signal along the signal path, and produce a second output signal at an end of the signal path; the fine-tuning arrangement including: a speed control unit which is selectively-connectable, and a switching circuit to selectively connect the speed control unit to the signal path based on a process-corner signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180294803A1 DELAY LINE CIRCUIT AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME Public/Granted day:2018-10-11
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