Abstract:
A method for receiving data comprising responsive to receiving a forward strobe, a forward strobe clock recovery circuit aligning a forward strobe sampling clock; and aligning a data bit sampling clock to track the forward strobe sampling clock during operation.
Abstract:
Embodiments of a power consumption reduction process for memory interfaces are described. A power management process reduces the amount of time that current flows in a high or low terminated, current or voltage mode unipolar bus interface by reducing the amount of time the bus remains in a logic state that requires current flow.
Abstract:
Embodiments directed to a memory device and a memory controller that continue to operate in a low-power mode during the period required for analog timing circuitry to initialize and become usable, are described. During a low-speed to high¬ speed transition mode of operation for a high-speed interface, timing circuitry of the interface between the memory device and memory controller locks to a forward clock signal concurrent with the continued operation of the interface in low-speed mode. A reference clock signal configured to operate at a rate that provides both a high-speed mode and a low-speed mode and which is used as a single rate clock allows phase detection and correction circuitry to be disabled, thus allowing the idle period caused by a transition from low-speed mode to high-speed mode to be significantly reduced.