Pulse or digital communications – Spread spectrum – Direct sequence
Patent
1992-04-30
1994-09-20
Chin, Stephen
Pulse or digital communications
Spread spectrum
Direct sequence
375118, H03D 324
Patent
active
053496132
ABSTRACT:
A digital Phase Locked Loop (PLL) comprises a Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) and a phase detector. The output of the VCO is coupled to a first input of the phase detector whose output is coupled to the input of the VCO by way of a low-pass filter. A second input of the phase detector is coupled to the output of a digital oscillator. The time constant of the low-pass filter determines the time necessary for the PLL to respond to frequency changes of the signal of the digital oscillator, and is therefore preferably made smallest possible. The lower boundary of the time constant is determined by the smallest possible frequency change of the digital oscillator signal. If the smallest possible frequency change is very small, the PLL will generally become too slow because the time constant is too large. By presenting a reference signal to the digital oscillator which reference signal is shifted by a predetermined phase magnitude by the digital oscillator in each time interval, a low-pass filter having a much smaller time constant may be sufficient.
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patent: 4862106 (1989-08-01), Toda et al.
patent: 4965533 (1990-10-01), Gilmore
patent: 5036298 (1991-07-01), Bulzachelli
Chin Stephen
Treacy David R.
U.S. Philips Corporation
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