Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dual-modulus prescaler circuit operating at a very high frequency
- Patent Title (中): 双模预分频电路工作在非常高的频率
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Application No.: US12332848Application Date: 2008-12-11
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Publication No.: US07719326B2Publication Date: 2010-05-18
- Inventor: Arnaud Casagrande , Carlos Velasquez , Jean-Luc Arend
- Applicant: Arnaud Casagrande , Carlos Velasquez , Jean-Luc Arend
- Applicant Address: CH Marin
- Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd.
- Current Assignee: The Swatch Group Research and Development Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: CH Marin
- Agency: Griffin & Szipl, P.C.
- Priority: EP07122935 20071211
- Main IPC: H03K21/00
- IPC: H03K21/00 ; H03K23/00

Abstract:
The dual-modulus prescaler circuit (1) is devised to operate at a very high frequency. This circuit includes an assembly formed of two dynamic D-type flip flops (12, 13), and two NAND logic gates (15, 16) arranged in negative feedback between the two flip flops. The two flip flops are clocked by an input clock signal (CK) to supply a divided output signal (OUT) whose frequency matches the input clock frequency divided by 2 or by 3 as a function of a division mode selection signal (divb) applied to the input of the first NAND logic gate (15). One non-inverted output of the second flip flop is connected to one input of the first flip flop (12). The first dynamic flip flop includes three active branches and supplies a single inverted output signal. A third flip flop (14) with three active branches receives an inverted mode selection signal (div) at input in order to supply the mode selection signal to the inverted output thereof, clocked by the non-inverted output signal of the second flip flop.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090146699A1 DUAL-MODULUS PRESCALER CIRCUIT OPERATING AT A VERY HIGH FREQUENCY Public/Granted day:2009-06-11
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