Boosted clock phases and impedance-switched level shifters enable fast startup, accurate frequency control, and lower power use.
A low-frequency clock runs continuously while a high-frequency clock wakes only for counting and timestamps, preserving precision with low power.
Distributed DRO cells track local oscillator counts to expose voltage drops and speed bottlenecks in high-speed digital systems.
Wireless calibration lets on-chip and free-running RF oscillators replace quartz crystals, cutting radio size, cost, and power.
Pseudo-random or hold clock patterns from DRAM improve GPU clock recovery by reducing phase offset and locking time.
A low-speed clock runs continuously while a high-speed clock wakes only near events or output edges to deliver precise timing with lower power.
Static gate and multiplexer states prevent glitches during delay changes, enabling one-cycle switching with lower power and no step limits.
Opposite-temperature-coefficient resistors and matched capacitor ratios cancel first-order drift in a relaxation oscillator.
A realignment signal reuses delay-chain transistors to align waveform phase and reduce PVT-driven phase noise without extra multiplexers.
Digital leakage-current tuning and feedback calibration lock a ring oscillator to a reference clock for stable low-power timing across PVT variations.
Substrate forward bias lowers transistor threshold voltage so a two-stage ring VCO can run at 0.5 V with low power and wide frequency tuning.
Phase interpolation and rotation phase shifts tune mmW oscillators without varactors, widening frequency range while reducing phase noise.
Pulse-based selective oscillators perform product-sum and accumulation operations at high speed with lower power and simpler AI hardware.
Dual oscillators and reference-clock sampling extract phase and frequency data to improve time-difference conversion despite jitter and process variation.
Edge-order-based delay adjustment reduces skew across clock domains while avoiding double cycle compression and setup-time violations.
Mutual inductance creates source-node voltage swing to sustain gate-to-source drive, enabling low-voltage oscillation with lower phase noise.
Selectable analog and digital delay stages align PPS signal edges across nodes, preserving duty cycle and reducing BER from routing shifts.