ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,106, issued on April 8, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Clocking architecture for communicating synchronous and asynchronous clock signals over a communication interface" was invented by David P. Schultz (Seattle) and Richard W. Swanson (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a first IC chip, a second IC chip, and a chip-to-chip interface connected between the first IC chip and the second IC chip. The chip-to-chip interface communicates an interface clock signal and a logic clock signal between the first IC chip and the second IC chip. The interface clock signal is ...