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Integrated circuit

US6380782B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 8, 2001
Grant dateApr 30, 2002
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Expiry dateJan 8, 2021

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F1/10
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The integrated circuit has a clock input for an external clock signal and an output unit controlled by an internal clock signal in a normal mode of operation to output data to a data output. In addition, the integrated circuit has a control unit generating the internal clock signal from the external clock signal. The control unit has a phase shift unit that, in the normal mode of operation, effects a phase shift of the internal clock signal generated by the control unit with respect to the external clock signal. In addition, the integrated circuit has a detector unit determining the capacitive load on the data output. The detector unit supplying the phase shift unit with a corresponding detector signal on the basis of which the phase shift is set.

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