Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of calibrating and a calibration circuit for a two-point modulation phase locked loop
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Application No.: US17061147Application Date: 2020-10-01
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Publication No.: US11356061B2Publication Date: 2022-06-07
- Inventor: Nereo Markulic , Jan Craninckx , Miguel Glassee
- Applicant: IMEC VZW
- Applicant Address: BE Leuven
- Assignee: IMEC VZW
- Current Assignee: IMEC VZW
- Current Assignee Address: BE Leuven
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- Priority: EP19200986 20191002
- Main IPC: H03C3/09
- IPC: H03C3/09 ; H03L7/093 ; H03L7/099

Abstract:
The method of calibrating a two-point modulation phase locked loop (PLL) comprises observing, between the loop filter and the second injection point, the loop control signal over at least one period of the first periodic control signal; generating, from the observed loop control signal, a distortion profile; and applying the distortion profile to the second periodic control signal before injecting the second periodic control signal in the PLL. Since, in the case of non-linearity in the controlled oscillator, the PLL output deviates from the ideally expected one, cancellation through the first injection point becomes imperfect disturbing the loop. This error pattern can be observed on the loop filter which allows to generate a distortion profile to distort the second periodic control signal for the next period of the modulation. This will mitigate the effects of the non-linearity of the oscillator.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210104976A1 Method of Calibrating and a Calibration Circuit for a Two-Point Modulation Phase Locked Loop Public/Granted day:2021-04-08
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