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- Patent Title: System and method for synchronizing local oscillators
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Application No.: US14552241Application Date: 2014-11-24
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Publication No.: US09229433B1Publication Date: 2016-01-05
- Inventor: Mark Hiebert , Derek J. W. Ho
- Applicant: PMC-SIERRA US, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: PMC-SIERRA US, INC.
- Current Assignee: PMC-SIERRA US, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agent Dennis R. Haszko
- Main IPC: H03M1/50
- IPC: H03M1/50 ; G04F10/00 ; H03M1/12 ; H04L7/033 ; H03M1/00

Abstract:
Provided is a method and apparatus for aligning a first local oscillator (LO) clock generated by a controllable LO clock generator in a first radio frequency (RF) path with a second LO clock in a second RF path. The apparatus includes a synchronization channel configured to exchange a synchronization clock between the first and second RF paths, a phase detector configured to measure a phase alignment between the first and second LO clocks, and a loop filter configured to drive the controllable LO clock generators using the phase alignment. Also provided is a time to digital converter. The time to digital converter includes a D flip-flop for sampling first and second input clocks with a third clock, and a counter configured to synchronously increment the resulting samples and create a digital proportional value representing the delay between the first and second clocks.
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