Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Frequency doubler with duty cycle estimator, duty cycle corrector, and T/4 delay generator
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Application No.: US18295376Application Date: 2023-04-04
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Publication No.: US12160241B2Publication Date: 2024-12-03
- Inventor: Patan Imran Khan , Hariharan Ganapathy Raman , Rahul Reghu
- Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Current Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agency: Zagorin Cave LLP
- Main IPC: H03K5/156
- IPC: H03K5/156 ; H03L7/081

Abstract:
A clock doubler circuit doubles the frequency of an input clock signal. The input clock signal is supplied to a duty cycle corrector (DCC) circuit, which generates a DCC output signal having a duty cycle corrected to fifty percent and has a frequency that equals the input frequency. A T/4 delay circuit receives the input clock signal and generates a T/4 delay output signal that has a delay of T/4 from the DCC output signal and has the same frequency as the input clock signal. T/4 is one quarter of a period of the input clock signal. An XOR gate combines the DCC output signal and the T/4 delay output signal to generate an output clock signal that is twice the frequency of the input clock signal. A duty cycle estimator generates correction factors used to generate the T/4 delay output signal and the DCC output signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20240339996A1 FREQUENCY DOUBLER WITH DUTY CYCLE ESTIMATOR, DUTY CYCLE CORRECTOR, AND T/4 DELAY GENERATOR Public/Granted day:2024-10-10
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