IP Library Granted Patent US 8,816,733
Granted Patent B2
US 8,816,733 · App. 12/379,727 · Granted Aug 26, 2014

Delay locked-loop circuit and display apparatus

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Patent No.
US 8,816,733
App. No.
12/379,727
Granted
Aug 26, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A delay locked-loop circuit includes: a phase comparator detecting a phase difference between an external clock and an internal clock; an up/down counter controlling a delay time in accordance with an output signal from the phase comparator; and a delay line including plural unit delay circuits corresponding to plural bits of a signal output from the up/down counter in order to control the delay of the external clock to conform the external clock to the internal clock, and in which the unit delay circuits controlled by the output from a same bit in the output from the up/down counter are not connected adjacently to each other in the connection of the plural unit delay circuits in series.

Claims (10)

1. A delay locked-loop circuit comprising:

delay cells configured to delay an external clock by a delay time, said external clock upon delay becoming an internal clock;

a comparator configured to detect a phase difference between said external clock and said internal clock, output signals from said comparator controlling a counter;

bit lines from said counter to said delay cells, signals on said bit lines controlling said delay time,

wherein one of the bit lines is connected to non-adjacent ones of the delay cells, none of the bit lines being connected to adjacent ones of the delay cells.

2. The delay locked-loop circuit according to claim 1 , wherein one of the delay cells is connected in series with another of the delay cells.

3. The delay locked-loop circuit according to claim 1 , wherein a signal on said one of the bit lines is the most significant bit of said counter.

4. The delay locked-loop circuit according to claim 1 , wherein said output signals are count up/down signals.

5. A display apparatus comprising:

a display unit, a display timing of said display unit being controlled by the internal clock of claim 1 .

Assignments (1)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Oct 28, 2015
From: JAPAN DISPLAY WEST INC.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
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