Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fractional clock generator
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Application No.: US16151752Application Date: 2018-10-04
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Publication No.: US10425091B2Publication Date: 2019-09-24
- Inventor: Dinesh Jain , Markus Friedrich Dietl
- Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Applicant Address: US TX Dallas
- Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Dallas
- Agent John R. Pessetto; Charles A. Brill; Frank D. Cimino
- Priority: IN201741038586 20171031
- Main IPC: H03L7/06
- IPC: H03L7/06 ; H03L7/197 ; H03K23/68

Abstract:
A full quadrant analog interpolator used in a fractional clock generator. A quadrature clock signal with minimal jitter is provided to the full quadrant analog interpolator. The full quadrant analog interpolator uses a series of switches and current sources to develop a differential output signal based on a digital input value, thus allowing digital control of the delay developed by the full quadrant analog interpolator. The differential output of the full quadrant analog interpolator is provided to multi-stage comparator. The output of the multi-stage comparator is provided to an integer divider to provide the final output clock. A digital control section utilizes a ΣΔ modulator and a summer to utilize an input N.α control input which provides the desired fractional division amount to provide a signal to a phase accumulator. The output of the phase accumulator is the digital control or β value of the full quadrant analog interpolator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190131983A1 FRACTIONAL CLOCK GENERATOR Public/Granted day:2019-05-02
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