Lei C Lin

US Patent:

20030034832, Feb 20, 2003

Filed:

Jan 12, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/758603

Inventors:

Ashok Kapoor - Palo Alto CA, US
Lei Lin - San Jose CA, US

International Classification:

H01R013/68

US Classification:

327/564000, 439/621000, 327/563000

Abstract:

An improved method and design for adjusting clock skew in a wire trace comprising a corrugated pattern wire trace bracketed by a pair of parallel conducting wire frames with wire extensions projecting between the corrugations of the wire trace. The wire frames are connected to a voltage supply. The transmission properties of the wire trace, and thus the degree of clock skew associated with the wire trace, are affected by the number of wire extensions protruding between the corrugations, their degree of penetration, as well as other factors inherent in the design. The present design can achieve the same degree of clock skew with a smaller surface area covered and with fewer resistive losses than with prior art designs.