US 12,206,418 B2
Delay device and delay control method
Wenlin Xu, Suzhou (CN); Lixin Jiang, Suzhou (CN); Bo Qu, Suzhou (CN); and Jinfu Chen, Suzhou (CN)
Assigned to Montage Technology (Kunshan) Co., Ltd., Suzhou (CN)
Appl. No. 18/037,776
Filed by Montage Technology (Kunshan) Co., Ltd., Suzhou (CN)
PCT Filed May 27, 2022, PCT No. PCT/CN2022/095734
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 19, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2023/273748, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 5, 2023.
Claims priority of application No. 202110726706.6 (CN), filed on Jun. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0412159 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. H03K 5/133 (2014.01); H03K 19/17784 (2020.01); H03K 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H03K 5/133 (2013.01) [H03K 19/17784 (2013.01); H03K 2005/00065 (2013.01); H03K 2005/00084 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A delay device, comprising:
a plurality of current-controlled delay groups, coupled to a transmission wire, wherein a first current-controlled delay group comprises one first current-controlled delayer, at least one second current-controlled delay group comprises a plurality of second current-controlled delayers and each of the first current-controlled delayer and the plurality of second current-controlled delayers provides a delay according to a control voltage;
a plurality of switches, wherein each of the plurality of switches is coupled between the each of the plurality of current-controlled delay groups and the transmission wire, wherein each of the plurality of switches is turned on or off according to a bit of an enable signal applied thereto
wherein the plurality of current-controlled delay groups respectively correspond to the plurality of switches, and number of the plurality of switches is equal to number of the plurality of current-controlled delay groups.