US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Sept. 22 for "Control signal training" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,067, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Control signal training" was invented by Vinod Inipodu Murugan (San Jose, Calif.) and Anirudha Shelke (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller iteratively activates a control signal for one-half a clock cycle while sweeping its phase relationship to the rising edge of the clock. Phase relationships that result in the rising edge of the clock occurring while the control signal is active result in the memory device outputting command/address data on the data bus. Phase relationships that do not result in the rising edge of th...