Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Time to digital converter and phase locked loop
- Patent Title (中): 时间到数字转换器和锁相环
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Application No.: US15041217Application Date: 2016-02-11
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Publication No.: US09584177B2Publication Date: 2017-02-28
- Inventor: Nenad Pavlovic , Vladislav Dyachenko , Tarik Saric
- Applicant: NXP B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: NXP B.V.
- Current Assignee: NXP B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Priority: EP15155328 20150217
- Main IPC: H04L1/00
- IPC: H04L1/00 ; H04B1/7073 ; H03L7/197 ; H04B1/69 ; H03C3/09

Abstract:
A phase locked loop is disclosed having a frequency controlled oscillator, a feedback path, a time to digital converter and a memory. The frequency controlled oscillator comprises a first control input for varying the frequency of the output of the frequency controlled oscillator so as to track a reference frequency and a second control input for modulating the frequency of the output signal so as to produce a chirp. The feedback path is configured to provide an input signal to the time to digital converter, and comprises modulation cancelling module operable to remove the frequency modulation resulting from the second control input from the output signal. The memory stores second control input values that each correspond with a desired chirp frequency and which compensate for non-linearity in the response of the frequency controlled oscillator to the second control input. The phase locked loop is operable in a chirp mode, in which the second control input is produced by determining a value for the second control input corresponding with a desired chirp frequency based on the stored second control input values in the memory, and in which the phase locked loop is configured to determine the first control input based on the feedback path from which the modulation cancelling module has removed the frequency modulation resulting from the second control input.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160241301A1 TIME TO DIGITAL CONVERTER AND PHASE LOCKED LOOP Public/Granted day:2016-08-18
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