Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multiphase clock generation and calibration
- Patent Title (中): 多相时钟生成和校准
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Application No.: US13035331Application Date: 2011-02-25
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Publication No.: US08294501B1Publication Date: 2012-10-23
- Inventor: Christopher Thomas , Yanggao Qiu , Junling Zang , Wei Fu
- Applicant: Christopher Thomas , Yanggao Qiu , Junling Zang , Wei Fu
- Applicant Address: LU Luxembourg
- Assignee: SMSC Holdings S.a.r.l.
- Current Assignee: SMSC Holdings S.a.r.l.
- Current Assignee Address: LU Luxembourg
- Main IPC: H03H11/16
- IPC: H03H11/16

Abstract:
Systems and methods are disclosed for improving the accuracy of phase spacing of multiphase clocks. In one example, method includes receiving a reference clock having a first frequency and sampling the reference clock with a plurality of multiphase clocks having a second frequency to generate a plurality of samples. The second frequency is a non-integer multiple of the first frequency. The method also includes detecting transitions of the reference clock occurring between the samples generated from a plurality of pairs of the multiphase clocks and counting the transitions to generate a transition count for each pair of the multiphase clocks. The method also includes summing a set of the transition counts to generate a measured phase for a first multiphase clock, calculating a reference phase for the first multiphase clock, and generating a phase skew value for the first multiphase clock based on the measured phase and the reference phase.
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