Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Multi-phase clock generator
- Patent Title (中): 多相时钟发生器
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Application No.: US13186076Application Date: 2011-07-19
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Publication No.: US08405436B2Publication Date: 2013-03-26
- Inventor: Chan-Fei Lin , Shih-Chun Lin
- Applicant: Chan-Fei Lin , Shih-Chun Lin
- Applicant Address: TW Tainan
- Assignee: Himax Technologies Limited
- Current Assignee: Himax Technologies Limited
- Current Assignee Address: TW Tainan
- Agency: J.C. Patents
- Main IPC: H03L7/06
- IPC: H03L7/06

Abstract:
A multi-phase clock generator including a first delay locked loop, a reference signal generator and a second delay locked loop is provided. The first delay locked loop generates 2N phase clock signals according to an input clock signal, so as to equally divide a clock period of the input clock signal into 2N predetermined phases, where N is a positive integer. The reference signal generator selects two phase clock signals according to a digital signal, and adjusts an output ratio of the two phase clock signals in 2M clock periods to serve as a reference clock signal. The second delay locked loop delays a first phase clock signal according to a phase difference between the reference clock signal and an output clock signal. In this way, each predetermined phase is further equally divided into 2M sub-phases, so that the multi-phase clock generator has 2(N+M) phase selections.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130022162A1 MULTI-PHASE CLOCK GENERATOR Public/Granted day:2013-01-24
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