- Patent Title: Digital clock generation with randomized division of a source clock
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Application No.: US16680046Application Date: 2019-11-11
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Publication No.: US10911057B2Publication Date: 2021-02-02
- Inventor: Sarma Sundareswara Gunturi , Jawaharlal Tangudu , Sundarrajan Rangachari
- 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: IN201841042423 20181112
- Main IPC: H03L7/18
- IPC: H03L7/18 ; H04B1/40 ; H03K3/84

Abstract:
A digital clock generator for a digital clock domain interfaced to another clock domain through a FIFO, includes division selector circuitry to provide an input randomizing sequence of clock division factors, selected from a defined set of clock division factors corresponding to a target average clock division, and division arbitration circuitry to generate a drift-corrected randomizing sequence of clock division factors, based at least in part on the input randomizing sequence of clock division factors, and an accumulated drift correction signal. A clock drift control loop generates the accumulated drift correction signal, based at least in part on an accumulated clock drift relative to the target average clock division. Clock generation can be based on randomized division with the drift-corrected randomizing sequence of clock division factors. The drift-corrected randomizing sequence of clock division factors can be generated so that clock drift is bounded based on a FIFO depth.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200153444A1 DIGITAL CLOCK GENERATION WITH RANDOMIZED DIVISION OF A SOURCE CLOCK Public/Granted day:2020-05-14
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