Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Calibration of a time-to-digital converter using a virtual phase-locked loop
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Application No.: US18083396Application Date: 2022-12-16
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Publication No.: US11888493B2Publication Date: 2024-01-30
- Inventor: Timothy Adam Monk , Douglas F. Pastorello , Krishnan Balakrishnan , Raghunandan Kolar Ranganathan
- Applicant: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Irvine
- Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Irvine
- Agency: Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP
- Main IPC: H03M1/10
- IPC: H03M1/10 ; G04F10/00 ; H03L7/085

Abstract:
A clock product includes a time-to-digital converter responsive to an input clock signal, a reference clock signal, and a time-to-digital converter calibration signal. The time-to-digital converter includes a coarse time-to-digital converter and a fine time-to digital converter. The clock product includes a calibration circuit including a phase-locked loop. The calibration circuit is configured to generate the time-to-digital converter calibration signal. The clock product includes a controller configured to execute instructions that cause the phase-locked loop to generate an error signal for each possible value of a fine time code of a digital time code generated by the time-to-digital converter and to average the error signal over multiple clock cycles to generate an average error signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230231567A1 CALIBRATION OF A TIME-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER USING A VIRTUAL PHASE-LOCKED LOOP Public/Granted day:2023-07-20
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