Oscillators – Automatic frequency stabilization using a phase or frequency... – Afc with logic elements
Patent
1984-11-02
1986-06-10
Grimm, Siegfried H.
Oscillators
Automatic frequency stabilization using a phase or frequency...
Afc with logic elements
331 27, 307516, 307526, 328134, H03D 1300, H03L 718
Patent
active
045945632
ABSTRACT:
A signal comparison circuit is described which is implementable by a logic gate array structure without introducing the possibility of the large, incorrect error signals possible with phase comparators implemented by logic gate array structures. The circuit has particular applicability to phase-locked-loop circuits because it compares the frequency and phase of a first input signal with the frequency and phase of a second input signal in an error-free manner. A first master flip-flop triggered by the first input signal produces negative pulses, under the control of a NAND latch. A second master flip-flop is triggered by the second input signal to produce negative pulses, under control of the same NAND latch. The NAND latch is responsive to the outputs of the first and second master flip-flops. The first and second input signals are each delayed, and the delayed input signals are respectively used to trigger first and second slave flip-flops (which are slaves to the two master flip-flops). The outputs of the slave flip-flops control the state of a NOR latch. The NAND latch indicates which of the two input signals leads the other in phase, while the NOR latch indicates which of the input signals has a higher frequency than the other. The outputs of the NAND and NOR latches are decoded and provide a control voltage to a voltage-controlled oscillator to vary the frequency of the oscillator in accordance with a reference frequency.
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patent: 3663884 (1972-05-01), Pattantyus
patent: 4151485 (1979-04-01), LaFratta
patent: 4378509 (1983-03-01), Hatchett et al.
CMOS Integrated Circuit Manual, 1980, published by RCA, pp. 714-717.
Almeida George B.
Ampex Corporation
Grimm Siegfried H.
Mossino Ralph L.
Zimmerman G. Michael
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