Invention Grant
- Patent Title: DTC-based PLL and method for operating the DTC-based PLL
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Application No.: US15605261Application Date: 2017-05-25
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Publication No.: US10200047B2Publication Date: 2019-02-05
- Inventor: Nereo Markulic , Yao-Hong Liu , Jan Craninckx
- Applicant: IMEC VZW , Stichting IMEC Nederland , Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Applicant Address: BE Leuven NL Eindhoven BE Brussels
- Assignee: IMEC VZW,Stichting IMEC Nederland,Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Current Assignee: IMEC VZW,Stichting IMEC Nederland,Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Current Assignee Address: BE Leuven NL Eindhoven BE Brussels
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- Priority: EP16171359 20160525
- Main IPC: H03L7/06
- IPC: H03L7/06 ; H03L7/085 ; H03K5/159 ; H03L7/099 ; H03L7/081 ; H03L7/197 ; H03K5/00

Abstract:
The disclosure provides a phase locked loop, PLL, for phase locking an output signal to a reference signal. The PLL comprises a reference path providing the reference signal to a first input of a phase detector, a feedback loop providing the output signal of the PLL as a feedback signal to a second input of the phase detector, a controllable oscillator generating the output signal based on at least a phase difference between reference and feedback signal, a digital-to-time converter, DTC, delaying a signal that is provided at one of the first and second input, a delay calculation path for calculating a DTC delay value. The PLL further comprises a randomization unit for generating and adding a random offset, i.e. a pseudo-random integer, to the delay value. The offset is such that a target output of the phase detector remains substantially unchanged.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170346493A1 DTC-Based PLL and Method for Operating the DTC-Based PLL Public/Granted day:2017-11-30
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