Abstract:
A high speed transceiver without using an external clock signal and a communication method used by the high speed transceiver which applies a clock recovery circuit including a coarse code generator, a frequency detector, and a linear phase detector to the receiver so as to solve problems such as skew between a reference clock and data that may occur during data transmission and jitter of a recovered clock while an embedded clock method of applying clock information to data is used.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a synthesiser having a divide circuit implemented using only a single counter along with a decoder. This allows for a method of designing a plurality of divide circuits which each use the same single counter and each use a different decoder.
Abstract:
A method and circuit is provided for determining a control voltage of a voltage controlled oscillator with fast frequency lock of a phase-locked loop and which is advantageous to the situation when an ultra-low frequency reference is used. The method and circuit determines a current error between a reference clock signal and a feedback clock signal, and checks if the error is larger than the threshold value which checks if an error sign indicator is set, i.e. the error has switched sign since startup of feedback loop; if the error sign indicator is not set, the circuit determines a divisor, k n , using the current error, e n , current control voltage, u n , previous error e n-1 , and previous control voltage, u n-1 ; however, if the error sign indicator is set the circuit determines a divisor, k n , using stored values for the latest control voltage and error when the error was negative and stored values for the latest control voltage and error when the error was positive; furthermore, the method and circuit determines a control voltage step using the determined error divided by the divisor, k n , and determines a new control voltage using the current control voltage, u n , and the determined control voltage step.
Abstract:
A low power delay-locked loop (DLL) is presented. In one embodiment, the DLL includes a phase detector which includes a reference input and a feedback input to determine a phase difference. The DLL also includes a controller to determine whether to provide a signal to both the reference input and the feedback input such that the reference input and the feedback input receive an identical input, for example, during low power operation.
Abstract:
A phase locked loop (10) comprising: a tuneable oscillator (12); a mixer-based phase sensitive detector (18) to receive input signals from the tuneable oscillator (12) and a reference signal (20); a cycle slip detector (26) to receive input signals from the tuneable oscillator (12) and the reference signal (20), the cycle slip detector (26) being configured to generate an output signal when two consecutive pulses are present in one of its input signals without an intervening pulse in the other of its input signals; coarse tune signal means (32, 34) to receive the output signal generated by the cycle slip detector; and adding means (24) for adding a signal output by the coarse signal means (32, 34) to a signal output by the phase sensitive detector (18) to control the frequency of the tuneable oscillator (12).
Abstract:
A delay locked loop (DLL) includes a delay line configured to provide a delayed version of a reference clock as a feedback clock. The DLL also includes a phase detector that may provide an output signal that is indicative of a change in a delay associated with the delay line. The DLL may also include a step size controller that may provide a step size indication corresponding to a first step size in response to detecting the output signal indicating a first change in delay, and to provide a step size indications corresponding to a second step size that is smaller than the first step size in response to detecting the output signal indicating a second change in delay.
Abstract:
Vorrichtung (1) zum Erzeugen einer vorgegebenen Phasenverschiebung zwischen zwei Ausgangssignalen (I,Q) mit einer Verzögerungs-Kette (2) aus mehreren seriell hintereinander angeordneten Verzögerungs-Gliedern (2 1 -2 4 ). Es sind mehrere Phasendetektoren (10 1 -10 4 ) jeweils zum Erfassen der Phasendifferenz zwischen dem Signal am Ausgang eines zugeordneten Verzögerungs-Glieds (2 1 -2 4 ) und einem ersten Referenz-Signal (SR 1 ), das in einer festen Phasenbeziehung zum ersten Ausgangssignal (I) steht, vorhanden. Eine Auswahleinrichtung (11) steht mit den Ausgängen der Phasendetektoren (10 1 -10 4 ) in Verbindung und wählt dasjenige Verzögerungs-Glied (2 1 -2 4 ) aus, an dessen Ausgang die durch den zugeordneten Phasendetektor (10 1 -10 4 ) erfasste Phasendifferenz mit der vorgegebenen Phasenverschiebung in grober Übereinstimmung steht. Eine Schalteinrichtung (12) dient zum Durchschalten des Ausgangs desjenigen Verzögerungs-Gliedes (2 1 -2 4 ), welches von der Auswahleinrichtung (11) ausgewählt wurde, um das zweite Ausgangssignal (Q) zu erzeugen.