US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Sept. 8 for "Hybrid phase interpolator with unified blender and eye-surf circuit" (Maryland, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,174, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hybrid phase interpolator with unified blender and eye-surf circuit" was invented by Satya Someswara Kaushik Yanamandra (Gaithersburg, Md.), Benjamin L. Heilmann (Southport, N.C.) and Mark A. Summers (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unified blender/eye-surf circuit has a first signal path operable in a blender mode to blend phases of two phase-shifted clock signals of a first plurality of phase-shifted clock signals in a fixed ratio to generate a first blended clock signal, and operable in an eye-surf test mode to create variable phas...