Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Clock oscillator circuit and semiconductor device
- Patent Title (中): 时钟振荡电路和半导体器件
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Application No.: US13286208Application Date: 2011-10-31
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Publication No.: US08487708B2Publication Date: 2013-07-16
- Inventor: Isamu Hayashi
- Applicant: Isamu Hayashi
- Applicant Address: JP Kawasaki-shi
- Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
- Current Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kawasaki-shi
- Agency: Miles & Stockbridge P.C.
- Priority: JP2010-248241 20101105
- Main IPC: H03K3/03
- IPC: H03K3/03

Abstract:
An object is to provide a method for preventing the occurrence of variations in time resolution by providing a calibration process to a TDC at the time of start up and further preventing the increase in circuit scale by reducing the redundancy of delay elements. A calibration of a multiphase oscillator TDC and a vernier TDC is carried out at the time of power-on. In the calibration, a timing input to be input to the vernier TDC is selected from output signals of DCCO based on a reference clock. Also, data is defined as an output signal which is adjacent to the output signal of DCCO mentioned above and proceeds in phase, and the delay therebetween is derived. By repeating it to all of the output signals, the one cycle of the output signal of DCCO is derived.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120112841A1 CLOCK OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE Public/Granted day:2012-05-10
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