US 7,525,364 B2
Delay control circuit
Katsuhiko Ariyoshi, Yokohama (Japan); Souyou Setsu, Yokohama (Japan); and Ryusuke Obara, Yokohama (Japan)
Assigned to Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Jul. 27, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/493,622.
Claims priority of application No. 2006-081698 (JP), filed on Mar. 23, 2006.
Prior Publication US 2007/0222494 A1, Sep. 27, 2007
Int. Cl. H03H 11/26 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 327—276  [327/278; 327/155; 327/161] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A delay control circuit, comprising:
a first variable delay circuit which delays an input signal to introduce a first delay into a first edge which is one of a rising edge and a falling edge of the input signal, thereby generates a first delay signal;
a second variable delay circuit which delays the input signal to introduce a second delay into a second edge which is the other one of the rising edge and the falling edge of the input signal, thereby generates a second delay signal;
a control circuit which generates a control signal for controlling the first variable delay circuit and the second variable delay circuit such that the first delay and the second delay are identical; and
a generation circuit which combines the first edge of the first delay signal and the second edge of the second delay signal, thereby generates a third delay signal,
wherein the generation circuit generates a rising edge of the third delay signal based on the first edge of the first delay signal and a falling edge of the third delay signal based on the second edge of the second delay signal, and the generation circuit includes a selection circuit for selecting the first edge of the first delay signal or the second edge of the second delay signal, and a latch circuit for latching the input signal by using the selected edge, and for generating the third delay signal.