Device for generating clock in semiconductor integrated circuit
AssigneeHynix Semiconductor Inc.
InventorsWon Joo Yun, Hyun Woo Lee, Ki Han Kim
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Abstract
Various embodiments of a semiconductor integrated circuit. According to one exemplary embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit includes a multi-phase clock generator that is configured to generate a multi-phase internal clock; a first edge combining unit that is configured to generate a first output clock having a first frequency by combining rising edges of clocks included in the internal clock, and transmit the first output clock to a first port; and a second edge combining unit that is configured to generate a second output clock having a second frequency by combining rising edges of clocks included in the internal clock, and transmit the output clock to a second port.
Claims13
A device for generating a clock in a semiconductor integrated circuit, the device comprising:
- a multi-phase clock generator configured to generate a multi-phase internal clock;
- a first edge combining unit configured to generate a first output clock having a first frequency by combining rising edges of clocks included in the internal clock, and transmit the first output clock to a first port;
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- a second edge combing unit configured to generate a second output clock having a second frequency by combining rising edges of clocks included in the internal clock, and transmit the second output clock to a second port,
- wherein the first edge combining unit is configured to extract a predetermined number of clocks, which is defined in accordance with a frequency mode, among the clocks included in the internal clock, and generate the first output clock by combining the rising edges of the extracted clocks.
A device for generating a clock in a semiconductor integrated circuit, the device comprising:
- a multi-phase clock generator configured to generate a multi-phase internal clock;
- a first edge combining unit configured to generate a first output clock having a first frequency by combining rising edges of clocks included in the internal clock, and transmit the first output clock to a first port;
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- a second edge combing unit configured to generate a second output clock having a second frequency by combining rising edges of clocks included in the internal clock, and transmit the second output clock to a second port,
- wherein the second edge combining unit is configured to extract a predetermined number of clocks, which is defined in accordance with a frequency mode, among the clocks included in the internal clock, and generate the second output clock by combining the rising edges of the extracted clocks.
A device for generating a clock in a semiconductor integrated circuit, the device comprising:
- a rising pulse extracting unit configured to generate a plurality of rising pulse extraction signals toggled to a predetermined level at the rising edges of a portion of pre-assigned clocks among clocks included in a multi-phase internal clock;
- a falling pulse extracting unit configured to generate a plurality of falling pulse extraction signals toggled to a low level at the rising edge of a portion of pre-assigned clocks among clocks included in the multi-phase internal clock;
- a MUX unit configured to generate a plurality of rising pulse signals and a plurality of falling pulse signals by combining the plurality of rising pulse extraction signals and the plurality of falling pulse extraction signals;
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- a clock generating unit configured to generate an output clock in response to the plurality of rising pulse signals and the plurality of falling pulse signals.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.