Digital delay locked loop

Details Digital delay locked loop Digital delay locked loop

1998-04-29

2000-07-11

Callahan, Timothy P.

Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and

Signal converting, shaping, or generating

Synchronizing

327158, 327161, 327270, 327276, H03L 706

Patent

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060878681

ABSTRACT:
An improved edge-triggered fully digital delay locked loop (DLL), which maintains reliable synchronization from startup and in spite of system clock jitter is described. An internal clock signal is synchronized with a reference clock signal by propagating the reference clock signal through a variable digital delay path. A wide phase detection region surrounds a selected rising edge of the internal clock signal. The DLL loop is open as long as the internal clock signal and a target edge of the reference clock signal are not simultaneously within the phase detection region. To achieve a DLL locked condition, the variable delay is increased from a minimum setting until the edge of the phase detection region is shifted in time just past the target edge of the reference clock. Once the DLL loop has been closed, a clock jitter filter is enabled to reject reference clock jitter effects on the DLL locked condition. A digital phase detector controls the delay line propagation delay to establish synchronization between the internal clock and the reference clock. Unused delay elements within the variable delay path are deactivated to save power.

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