Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Folded divider architecture
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Application No.: US15811223Application Date: 2017-11-13
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Publication No.: US10079593B2Publication Date: 2018-09-18
- Inventor: Beng-Heng Goh
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
- Applicant Address: SG Singapore
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
- Current Assignee Address: SG Singapore
- Agency: Crowe & Dunlevy
- Main IPC: H03K21/00
- IPC: H03K21/00 ; H03K23/00 ; H03K5/15 ; H03L7/183 ; H03L7/197

Abstract:
A circuit includes a counter circuit, a logic circuit, and a clock divider. The counter circuit includes a clock divider counter to be loaded with most significant bits of a divider value, and decremented at a same edge of each pulse of a clock signal. The logic circuit compares a value contained in the divider counter to a reference value and generates an end count signal as a function of the value contained in the divider counter matching the reference value, and transitions a toggle signal at a same edge of each pulse of the end count signal. The clock divider counter is reloaded with the most significant bits of the divider value as a function of the end count signal. The clock divider generates a divided version of the clock signal as a function of the toggle signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180083606A1 FOLDED DIVIDER ARCHITECTURE Public/Granted day:2018-03-22
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