US 11,749,323 B1
Signal receiver with skew-tolerant strobe gating
Neeraj Purohit, Bangalore (IN); Navin Mishra, Bangalore (IN); and Anirudha Shelke, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Rambus Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Rambus Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/845,034.
Application 17/845,034 is a continuation of application No. 17/117,411, filed on Dec. 10, 2020, granted, now 11,386,941.
Application 17/117,411 is a continuation of application No. 16/800,215, filed on Feb. 25, 2020, granted, now 10,891,996, issued on Jan. 12, 2021.
Application 16/800,215 is a continuation of application No. 16/418,204, filed on May 21, 2019, granted, now 10,593,385, issued on Mar. 17, 2020.
Application 16/418,204 is a continuation of application No. 15/945,235, filed on Apr. 4, 2018, granted, now 10,325,636, issued on Jun. 18, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/492,408, filed on May 1, 2017.
Int. Cl. G11C 7/22 (2006.01); G11C 7/10 (2006.01); H03K 5/135 (2006.01)
CPC G11C 7/222 (2013.01) [G11C 7/1009 (2013.01); H03K 5/135 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method of operation within an integrated-circuit component, the method comprising:
receiving, via an external timing signal link, a timing signal having a sequence of data-timing transitions preceded by one or more preamble transitions and succeeded by one or more postamble transitions;
generating a control pulse having a width not greater than a time interval between an initial one of the data-timing transitions and a final one of the data-timing transitions;
logically combining the control pulse and the timing signal to generate a gating pulse having a time-varying phase relative to an internal timing domain of the integrated-circuit component; and
logically combining the gating pulse and the first timing signal to produce a gated instance of the timing signal that lacks the one or more preamble transitions and the one or more postamble transitions.