ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,518, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Configurable delay chain" was invented by Abhishek Das (Bangalore, India), Amnon Parnass (Kadima-Zoran, Israel), Durga Prasad Bade (Bangalore, India), Shubharthi Datta (San Jose, Calif.) and O M Syed Ali (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a configurable delay chain, which contains a chain of binary delay blocks. Each binary delay block includes the following. Inputs receive an input signal, a select signal and a test control signal. A delay branch transmits the input signal with a delay, and a bypass branch transmi...