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- Patent Title: Injection locked ring oscillator based digital-to-time converter and method for providing a filtered interpolated phase signal
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Application No.: US14570299Application Date: 2014-12-15
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Publication No.: US09819356B2Publication Date: 2017-11-14
- Inventor: Davide Ponton , Antonio Passamani , Andrea Bevilacqua
- Applicant: Intel IP Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: H03M1/66
- IPC: H03M1/66 ; H04L27/233 ; H03C3/00 ; H03M1/82 ; H03K3/03 ; G04F10/00 ; H03L7/099 ; H03K5/131

Abstract:
Apparatus and methods for a digital-to-time converter (DTC) are provided. In an example, a DTC can include a phase interpolator and a ring oscillator. The phase interpolator can be configured to receive digital representations of two or more distinct phase signals, and to interpolate the digital representations of the two or more distinct phase signals to provide an interpolated output phase signal. The ring oscillator can be configured to receive the interpolated phase signal, to lock on to a frequency and a phase of the interpolated output phase signal, and to provide a filtered phase signal.
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