Oscillators – Automatic frequency stabilization using a phase or frequency... – Afc with logic elements
Reexamination Certificate
2008-04-29
2010-12-28
Kinkead, Arnold (Department: 2817)
Oscillators
Automatic frequency stabilization using a phase or frequency...
Afc with logic elements
C331S025000, C331S034000, C331S17700V, C327S156000, C375S376000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07859344
ABSTRACT:
In an ADPLL composed of a digital circuit, a technique improving phase difference detection in a vicinity of a phase difference of 0 (zero) is provided. A feedback loop comprises a PFD comparing phases and frequencies of a reference signal and a feedback signal, a TDC converting an output of the PFD into a digital value, a DLF removing a high frequency noise component from an output of the TDC, a DCO controlled based on an output of the DLF and a DIV frequency-dividing an output the DCO and outputting the feedback signal. An offset value is added at any portion of the feedback loop, a phase of the feedback signal is controlled and a value other than 0 is inputted to the TDC even when the ADPLL is locked.
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Dec Aleksander
Mohn Russell P
Samata Mitsunori
Suyama Ken
Ueda Keisuke
Epoch Microelectronics, Inc.
Kinkead Arnold
Mattingly & Malur, P.C.
Renesas Electronics Corporation
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