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US08090010B2 All digital implementation of clock spectrum spreading (dither) for low power/die area 有权
所有数字实现的时钟频谱扩展(抖动)用于低功耗/裸片面积

  • Patent Title: All digital implementation of clock spectrum spreading (dither) for low power/die area
  • Patent Title (中): 所有数字实现的时钟频谱扩展(抖动)用于低功耗/裸片面积
  • Application No.: US11803100
    Application Date: 2007-05-11
  • Publication No.: US08090010B2
    Publication Date: 2012-01-03
  • Inventor: Jody Greenberg
  • Applicant: Jody Greenberg
  • Applicant Address: BB
  • Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
  • Current Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
  • Current Assignee Address: BB
  • Main IPC: H04B17/00
  • IPC: H04B17/00 H04Q1/20
All digital implementation of clock spectrum spreading (dither) for low power/die area
Abstract:
A digital circuit configured to spread a clock train spectrum includes a clock configured to generate the clock train, and a variable divider configured to divide the frequency of the clock train by a temporally-varying-divider value to modulate the clock train and generate a dithered clock train. The circuit further includes a first accumulator configured to accumulate the dithered clock train to generate a frequency modulation waveform, and a second accumulator configured accumulate the frequency modulated waveform to generate a phase modulation signal. The circuit further includes a phase-value calculator configured to calculate the temporally-varying divider value based on the phase modulation signal; and a closed-loop control circuit configured to track and filter the modulation of the dithered clock train to generate a second clock train that is the spread spectrum of the first mentioned clock train.
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