Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Memory clock generator having multiple clock modes
- Patent Title (中): 具有多种时钟模式的存储器时钟发生器
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Application No.: US11907818Application Date: 2007-10-17
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Publication No.: US07660186B2Publication Date: 2010-02-09
- Inventor: Gus Yeung , Yew-Keong Chong
- Applicant: Gus Yeung , Yew-Keong Chong
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge
- Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee: ARM Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye P.C.
- Main IPC: G11C8/00
- IPC: G11C8/00

Abstract:
An integrated circuit 2 with a memory 4 is provided with clock generator circuitry 18. The clock generator circuitry 18 operates in a first mode in which the memory clock signal mclk is generated in dependence upon both the rising edge and the falling edge of a source clock signal sclk. In a second mode of operation the clock generator circuitry 18 generates the memory clock signal mclk following the rising edge of the source clock signal sclk and then using a self-timing delay path 26 to trigger the falling edge of the memory clock signal mclk. The first mode of operation can be used during write operations and during read operations at the lowest one of a plurality of different dynamically selectable voltage levels of operation of the memory 4. The second mode of self-timed memory clock signal can be used during reads at operating voltages other than the lowest operating voltage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090103391A1 Memory clock generator having multiple clock modes Public/Granted day:2009-04-23
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