Invention Grant
- Patent Title: High-speed non-integer frequency divider circuit
- Patent Title (中): 高速非整数分频电路
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Application No.: US13392663Application Date: 2009-09-02
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Publication No.: US08704557B2Publication Date: 2014-04-22
- Inventor: Adam Malmcrona , Tomas Nylén
- Applicant: Adam Malmcrona , Tomas Nylén
- Applicant Address: unknown Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (Publ)
- Current Assignee Address: unknown Stockholm
- Agency: Murphy, Bilak & Homiller, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/SE2009/050990 WO 20090902
- International Announcement: WO2011/028157 WO 20110310
- Main IPC: H03B19/00
- IPC: H03B19/00

Abstract:
The invention relates to a high-speed non-integer frequency divider circuit for use in generating frequencies in a communication device, comprising: at least four bi-stable memory devices each having an input terminal, a clock terminal and an output terminal for outputting an output signal. The high-speed non-integer frequency divider circuit is characterized in that the at least four bi-stable memory devices are arranged in a cascaded chain such that each bi-stable memory device following the first bi-stable memory device receives the output signal of a previous bi-stable memory device in the cascaded chain at its input terminal and such that at least one of the output signals of the last bi-stable memory device is used to control the input terminal of the first bi-stable memory device, and in that the frequency divider circuit further comprises a clocking arrangement adapted to provide an in-phase clock signal, a quadrature clock signal, an inverse of the in-phase clock signal and an inverse of the quadrature clock signal to the clock terminals of each of the at least four bi-stable memory devices such that a combination of output signals from the at least bi-stable memory devices produces a frequency divided output signal of the frequency divider circuit having a frequency division ratio of fourths of the frequency of the in-phase clock signal. The invention also relates to a frequency synthesizer and a communication device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120313674A1 High-Speed Non-Integer Frequency Divider Circuit Public/Granted day:2012-12-13
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