Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Frequency-divider circuitry
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Application No.: US16039760Application Date: 2018-07-19
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Publication No.: US10348275B2Publication Date: 2019-07-09
- Inventor: Dario San Martin Molina , Gordon James Bates
- Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cirrus Logic, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agency: Jackson Walker L.L.P.
- Priority: GB1715819.7 20170929
- Main IPC: H03K23/00
- IPC: H03K23/00 ; H03K3/03 ; H03K23/66 ; G06F1/04 ; H03L7/197 ; H03L7/099 ; H03K23/54

Abstract:
There is disclosed configurable frequency-divider circuitry for generating a target signal of a frequency Fr/Di based on a reference signal of a frequency Fr, where Di is an integer divider ratio, the frequency-divider circuitry comprising: N divider stages organised into a ring, each stage configured to receive an input signal and generate an output signal, with the output signal of each successive stage in the ring being the input signal of the next stage in the ring, wherein: the ring of stages is controlled by the reference signal so that the output signals are governed by the reference signal; the target signal is one of the output signals or a signal derived therefrom; and at least one of the stages is a configurable stage, whose mode of operation is configurable based on a configuration signal to configure the value of Di.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190036514A1 FREQUENCY-DIVIDER CIRCUITRY Public/Granted day:2019-01-31
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