Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Frequency divider
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Application No.: US15586867Application Date: 2017-05-04
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Publication No.: US10230381B2Publication Date: 2019-03-12
- Inventor: JingDong Deng , Omer O. Yildirim
- Applicant: Cavium, LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Cavium, LLC
- Current Assignee: Cavium, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.
- Main IPC: H03K23/00
- IPC: H03K23/00 ; H03L7/193 ; H03K3/356 ; H03K23/44 ; H03L7/099 ; H03L7/089 ; H03L7/081 ; H03K3/3562

Abstract:
A frequency divider circuit comprises a first divider chain including at least one first divider cell and a second divider chain coupled to the first divider chain to form an extendable divider chain. The second divider chain includes at least one second divider cell with a respective reset control. An effective length of the extendable divider chain may be altered, dynamically, via the respective reset control. Altering the effective length, dynamically, enables a division ratio of the frequency divider circuit to be changed, dynamically. The frequency divider circuit may be advantageously employed by applications that rely upon a dynamic division ratio, such as a fractional-N (frac-N) phase-locked loop (PLL).
Public/Granted literature
- US20180323792A1 Frequency Divider Public/Granted day:2018-11-08
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