Invention Application
- 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.: US16786364Application Date: 2020-02-10
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Publication No.: US20200177173A1Publication Date: 2020-06-04
- Inventor: Wanghua WU , Chih-Wei YAO
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- 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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