Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for amplifying a time difference
- Patent Title (中): 用于放大时差的方法和装置
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Application No.: US12813620Application Date: 2010-06-11
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Publication No.: US08476972B2Publication Date: 2013-07-02
- Inventor: You-Jen Wang , Shen-Iuan Liu , Feng Wei Kuo , Chewn-Pu Jou , Fu-Lung Hsueh
- Applicant: You-Jen Wang , Shen-Iuan Liu , Feng Wei Kuo , Chewn-Pu Jou , Fu-Lung Hsueh
- Applicant Address: TW Hsin-Chu TW Taipei
- Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd,National Taiwan University
- Current Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd,National Taiwan University
- Current Assignee Address: TW Hsin-Chu TW Taipei
- Agency: Duane Morris LLP
- Main IPC: G06G7/12
- IPC: G06G7/12 ; G06G7/26

Abstract:
A time amplifier circuit has first and second inverters and first and second pull-down paths. Each inverter includes a first NMOS transistor and a first PMOS transistor. A source of the first NMOS transistor is coupled to a ground node directly or through a first additional NMOS transistor having a gate coupled to a respective input node. The first and second inverters are coupled to first and second input nodes and to first and second output nodes, respectively. The first pull-down path is from the first output node to the ground node and is enabled in response to the first input signal and the second output signal being high. The second pull-down path is from the second output node to ground and is enabled in response to the second input signal and the first output signal being high.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110304372A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AMPLIFYING A TIME DIFFERENCE Public/Granted day:2011-12-15
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