Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – Signal converting – shaping – or generating – Frequency or repetition rate conversion or control
Reexamination Certificate
2006-02-28
2006-02-28
Callahan, Timothy P. (Department: 2816)
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
Signal converting, shaping, or generating
Frequency or repetition rate conversion or control
C327S150000, C327S151000, C377S048000, C331S016000, C331S025000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07005899
ABSTRACT:
A method and system described for producing frequency multiplication/division by any non-integer output signal frequency relative to a reference signal frequency of a Phase Lock-Loop (PLL), while simultaneously maintaining low jitter. In one embodiment, the invention increases the number of the available clock phases to M and then shifts the output clock phase by one, every K/M cycle. In one aspect of the present invention, this is accomplished by adding a multiplexer (MUX) to the output of the PLL to implement the phase shifting every K/M cycles. In another aspect, the MUX is placed in the feedback loop of the PLL. In one embodiment, a quantizer is used to drive the MUX.
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Fallahi Siavash
Vorenkamp Pieter
Wakayama Myles
Broadcom Corporation
Callahan Timothy P.
Luu An T.
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
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