Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Specific signal discriminating without subsequent control – By frequency
Patent
1997-05-30
2000-02-01
Wells, Kenneth B.
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Specific signal discriminating without subsequent control
By frequency
327102, 327145, H03D 1300
Patent
active
060207655
ABSTRACT:
A frequency difference detector includes a pulse generator that receives an NRZ signal and a reference signal and provides data pulses having first edges based on edges of the NRZ signal and second edges based on edges of the reference signal, a pulse router that routes consecutive ones of the data pulses to different signal paths, a voltage generator that receives the data pulses from the signal paths and provides voltage signals with amplitudes based on pulse widths of the data pulses, and a comparison circuit that receives the voltage signals and provides error pulses with amplitudes based on voltage differences between the voltage signals. The amplitudes of the error pulses represent a frequency difference between the NRZ signal and the reference signal. Preferably, the data pulses have leading edges based on edges of the NRZ signal and the lagging edges based on leading edges of the reference signal immediately following the edges of the NRZ signal. It is also preferred that the error pulses have a repetition rate that corresponds to the edges of the NRZ signal, a current amplitude that is proportional to the frequency difference between the NRZ signal and the reference signal, and a polarity that represents a sign of the frequency difference between the NRZ signal and the reference signal. The frequency difference detector is well-suited for use in a frequency/phase-locked loop that provides a clock recovery circuit.
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Bosnyak Robert J.
Drost Robert J.
Nguyen Minh
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Wells Kenneth B.
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