Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Signal converting – shaping – or generating – Synchronizing
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-14
2006-02-14
Callahan, Timothy P. (Department: 2816)
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Signal converting, shaping, or generating
Synchronizing
C327S161000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06998889
ABSTRACT:
A circuit, apparatus and method provides a lock state value representing an amount of time a phase alignment circuit (“PAC”), such as a PLL or DLL, is tracking or locked to an incoming reference signal for a predetermined period of time. In an embodiment of the present invention, a lock state detection circuit is coupled to a lock loop circuit and includes a phase detection circuit and a counter circuit. The phase detection circuit includes a phase detector and delay elements that are coupled to the PAC phase detector. The phase detector outputs a lock state sample value of the PAC. In an embodiment of the present invention, the PAC is locked when a stream of alternating lock state sample values, logical 1's and 0's, are output from the phase detector. The counter circuit includes a flip-flop, an XOR gate and counter for obtaining a lock state value for a predetermined period of time.
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Callahan Timothy P.
Cox Cassandra
Rambus Inc.
Vierra Magen Marcus Harmon & DeNiro LLP
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