US Patent Issued to MediaTek on Sept. 29 for "PCIe clock detection circuit and method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,719, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"PCIe clock detection circuit and method thereof" was invented by Hung-Chang Kuo (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Wei-De Jeng (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Mao-Cheng Chiu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PCIe clock detection circuit includes a clock detector, a clock receiver, a counter coupled to the clock receiver, a multiplexer coupled to the counter, and an AND gate coupled to the clock detector and the multiplexer. The clock detector is used to detect amplitude of a clock signal and generate a clock detection signal accordingly. The clock r...