- Patent Title: System and method for fast converging reference clock duty cycle correction for digital to time converter (DTC)-based analog fractional-N phase-locked loop (PLL)
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Application No.: US16019070Application Date: 2018-06-26
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Publication No.: US10581418B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Wanghua Wu , Chih-Wei Yao
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
- Current Assignee Address: KR
- Agency: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.
- Main IPC: H03K5/156
- IPC: H03K5/156 ; H03L7/099 ; H03L7/097 ; H04L25/49 ; H03L7/08 ; H03L7/091

Abstract:
A system and method for fast converging reference clock duty cycle correction for a digital to time converter (DTC) based analog fractional-N phase-locked loop (PLL) are herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, an electronic circuit includes a clock doubler, a comparator that outputs a value representing a difference between a voltage at a voltage-to-current (Gm) circuit and a reference voltage that is adjusted to compensate for an offset of the comparator, and a duty cycle calibration circuit that receives the value output from the comparator and adjusts a duty cycle of the PLL by extracting an error from the value output from the comparator and delaying a clock edge of the duty cycle according to the extracted error.
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