Phase locked time interval analyzer

Details Phase locked time interval analyzer Phase locked time interval analyzer

2005-12-13

2005-12-13

Nguyen, Vinh (Department: 2829)

Electricity: measuring and testing

Measuring, testing, or sensing electricity, per se

With rotor

C331S047000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06975106

ABSTRACT:
A method of analysis of a time interval between two selected measurement edges of interest includes locking a plurality of at least three substantially interchangeable oscillators to a common reference frequency, the oscillators containing digital locked-loop (DLL) circuit architecture. The method includes operating one oscillator as a timebase oscillator, and operating the other oscillators as edge-resettable measurement oscillators. The method further includes coupling one oscillator with a switched and physically-immutable parametric variation, producing an offset in the frequency of the coupled oscillator relative to the frequency of the other oscillators. The method includes phase-aligning each of the measurement oscillators to a triggering pulse created by one of selected measurement edges of interest, oscillating each phase-aligned measurement oscillator until its phase matches the phase of the timebase oscillator, and counting the number of oscillation cycles of the phase-aligned measurement oscillator from the time of phase-alignment until the time of phase matching.

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