Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus comprising a phase-locked loop
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Application No.: US16118974Application Date: 2018-08-31
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Publication No.: US10594327B2Publication Date: 2020-03-17
- Inventor: Cicero Silveira Vaucher , Sander Derksen , Erwin Janssen , Bernardus Johannes Martinus Kup
- Applicant: NXP B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: NXP B.V.
- Current Assignee: NXP B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Priority: EP17199331 20171031
- Main IPC: H03L7/06
- IPC: H03L7/06 ; H03L7/099 ; H03L7/091 ; H03L7/191 ; H03L7/185 ; H03L7/18

Abstract:
There is disclosed an apparatus comprising a first phase-locked loop comprising: a phase detector (302, 304), arranged to receive a reference clock signal (306) and a feedback clock signal (308) and to output a frequency control signal based on a phase difference between the reference clock signal (306) and the feedback clock signal (308); a variable-frequency oscillator (312, 314) arranged to output an oscillator signal having a frequency dependent on said frequency control signal; first divider circuitry (316) for generating said feedback clock signal (308) by frequency-dividing said oscillator signal; and second divider circuitry (320) for generating an output clock signal (3220 by frequency-dividing said oscillator signal; wherein a phase relation between said first divider circuitry (316) and said second divider circuitry (320) is adjustable to delay or advance said output clock signal (322) relative to said feedback clock signal (308). The apparatus may be a radar receiver or transceiver.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190131981A1 APPARATUS COMPRISING A PHASE-LOCKED LOOP Public/Granted day:2019-05-02
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