Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and devices for implementing all-digital phase locked loop
- Patent Title (中): 用于实现全数字锁相环的方法和装置
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Application No.: US14713945Application Date: 2015-05-15
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Publication No.: US09306586B2Publication Date: 2016-04-05
- Inventor: Olivier Burg , Miguel Kirsch
- Applicant: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
- Applicant Address: BB St. Michael
- Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: BB St. Michael
- Main IPC: H03L7/197
- IPC: H03L7/197 ; H03L7/113 ; H03L7/16 ; H03L7/099

Abstract:
An all-digital phase locked loop includes a time to digital converter that determines a fractional portion of a phase count. The time to digital converter has a quantization error that may be caused by phase noise, delay errors or skew errors. Several methods and devices may reduce the quantization error. A noise source may add dithering to the reference clock at an input of the time to digital converter. A digital processor may use two successive rising edges of the oscillator signal to count time delays of the time to digital convertor to the reference clock. The digital processor uses these counts to determine a ratio of the time delays and the time period of the oscillator signal for controlling a digitally controlled oscillator. A radio frequency counter circuit detects whether the oscillator signal leads or lags the reference clock because of skew and generates a phase signal to correct the skew.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150249455A1 METHODS AND DEVICES FOR IMPLEMENTING ALL-DIGITAL PHASE LOCKED LOOP Public/Granted day:2015-09-03
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