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US09304530B1 Skew-tolerant strobe-to-clock domain crossing 有权
耐偏向频闪到时钟域交叉

  • Patent Title: Skew-tolerant strobe-to-clock domain crossing
  • Patent Title (中): 耐偏向频闪到时钟域交叉
  • Application No.: US13946864
    Application Date: 2013-07-19
  • Publication No.: US09304530B1
    Publication Date: 2016-04-05
  • Inventor: Frederick A. Ware
  • Applicant: Rambus Inc.
  • Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
  • Assignee: Rambus Inc.
  • Current Assignee: Rambus Inc.
  • Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
  • Agent Charles Shemwell
  • Main IPC: G06F1/04
  • IPC: G06F1/04 G06F1/08 G11C7/22
Skew-tolerant strobe-to-clock domain crossing
Abstract:
A strobed signaling interface generates a reduced-frequency replica of an incoming strobe signal and applies the replica to extend the interval over which strobe-sampled write data values remain available for transfer to a clocked timing domain. Quadrature instances of the reduced-frequency strobe replicas may be generated and occasionally sampled by skew control logic within the memory component to obtain a coarse measure of the skew between the strobed and clocked timing domains. When the strobe-to-clock domain skew is outside a predetermined boundary, the skew control logic selects an alternative clock signal edge (i.e., earlier or later edge) to sample strobed data, thereby reducing the effective skew between the two timing domains.
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