Linearized digital phase-locked loop method

Details Linearized digital phase-locked loop method Linearized digital phase-locked loop method

2000-12-21

2002-07-09

Tokar, Michael (Department: 2819)

Electronic digital logic circuitry

Clocking or synchronizing of logic stages or gates

C326S046000, C326S096000, C365S233100, C365S239000, C365S240000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06417698

ABSTRACT:

FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a method and/or architecture for implementing phase-locked loops (PLLs) generally and, more particularly, to a method and/or architecture for implementing phase detection in linearized digital PLLs.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Conventional approaches for implementing PLLs include the bang-bang approach which comprises taking snapshots of the phase error with respect to edges of incoming data. The bang-bang approach corrects on every data edge based solely on the direction (polarity) of the offset. As a result, a bang-bang system is never truly “locked”. In the best case, a bang-bang system is nearly locked and makes a correction at every data edge (i.e., clocks are either switched clockwise or counter clockwise depending on the polarity of the phase offset). The bang-bang approach has the disadvantage of introducing excessive jitter in the resulting recovered clock since the clock is being shrunk or expanded at every edge.
Referring to
FIG. 1
, a circuit
10
implementing a conventional bang-bang approach for constructing digital phase locked loops is shown. The circuit
10
involves the use of over sampling methods to determine in which quadrant of the clock the data edge resides. The quadrant information is then applied to an adjustment mechanism which moves the clock the appropriate direction at each interval. No information associated with the magnitude of phase error is retained or utilized. Polarity of the error and presence of a data transition are the only information used to adapt the phase of the clock to the incoming datastream.
Referring to
FIG. 2
, a flow diagram
30
illustrating the operation of the conventional bang-bang circuit
10
is shown. The circuit
10
checks for a data edge and determines the relative polarity between the data and clock. If the polarity of the data relative to the clock is positive, the clocks are switched counterclockwise. If the polarity of the data relative to the clock is negative, the clocks are switched clockwise.
Since the circuit
10
does not use magnitude information, a transfer function is exhibited at the phase detector which has the characteristics typical of a bang-bang approach. Such detectors have an inability to tolerate large input signal distortion, such as the distortion that may be found at the end of typical wired media.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention concerns an apparatus for determining a state of a plurality of clock signals, comprising a circuit configured to store a state of each of said plurality of clock signals upon an edge of a data signal.
The objects, features and advantages of the present invention include providing a method and/or architecture for implementing a phase detector in a linearized digital PLL that may (i) reduce area requirements for sampling and encoding circuitry and/or (ii) reduce power requirements in high speed systems.


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