Patent ID: 7340635

Claim:
A de-skew system for a source synchronous receiver, comprising: a de-skew strobe generator for generating a plurality of de-skew strobe signals based on at least an incoming strobe signal, wherein only one of said deskew strobe signals will be active at a time; a plurality of de-skew registers for receiving input data originated from a transmitting domain at a particular clock frequency, each of said deskew registers operating responsive to a corresponding one of said plurality of de-skew strobe signals for spreading out a respective input data pulse over an expanded timing window into a spread data pulse; a bank of multiplexer (MUX) elements coupled to said de-skew registers for multiplexing data from each of said spread data pulses; and a bank of data capture registers coupled to said bank of MUX elements for capturing said multiplexed data in response to a clock signal associated with said source synchronous receiver.