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- Patent Title: Duty cycle correction circuit
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Application No.: US17449740Application Date: 2021-10-01
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Publication No.: US11437985B1Publication Date: 2022-09-06
- Inventor: Mathieu Vallet , Stefano Dal Toso , Mathieu Périn
- Applicant: NXP USA, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Priority: EP21305402 20210330
- Main IPC: H03K21/00
- IPC: H03K21/00 ; H03K5/156 ; H03K21/10 ; H03K23/40

Abstract:
A duty cycle correction circuit (DCCC) for a multi-modulus frequency divider, the DCCC comprising: a corrector chain comprising a plurality of flip-flops each configured to receive one of the internal signals; and at least one delay selection logic element, each configured to receive an output signal from different ones of the flip-flops and the output of each delay selection logic element is based on the received output signal and the division factor; the DCCC is configured such that: a first state change in its output signal is defined by a transition to a first logic state of one of the internal signals; and a second state change in its output signal is based on a transition to a second logic state of one of the internal signals after a delay period, wherein the duty cycle of the output signal is based on the delay period.
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