US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Aug. 25 for "Delay chain and method of operating same" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,463, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Delay chain and method of operating same" was invented by Shenggao Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delay chain includes: delay stages coupled in series, each delay stage including a driver device coupled between an input node and an output node of the delay stage, and a capacitor digital-to-analog converter (CDAC) coupled to the output node of the delay stage; at least one of the CDACs being a separately adjustable (SA) type of CDAC (SA_CDAC) that is separately adjustable relative to at least another one of...