Patent ID: 9240789
Filing Date: 2016-01-19
CPC Classification: H03K

Claim Text:
1. A receiver adapted to receive an input signal having a first voltage swing and to generate an output signal having a second voltage swing, the output signal being indicative of the input signal, the second voltage swing being greater than the first voltage swing, the receiver comprising: a first sub-rate receiver block; and at least a second sub-rate receiver block, wherein a receiver clock is divided into a first sub-rate clock phase and at least a second sub-rate clock phase, the first sub-rate clock phase being used to drive the first sub-rate receiver block and the second sub-rate clock phase being used to drive the second sub-rate receiver block; and further wherein each of the first sub-rate receiver block and the second sub-rate receiver block comprises at least one gated-diode sense amplifier.