Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Phase interpolator calibration
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Application No.: US15058625Application Date: 2016-03-02
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Publication No.: US09698968B2Publication Date: 2017-07-04
- Inventor: Anthony R. Bonaccio , Timothy C. Buchholtz , Rajesh Cheeranthodi , Giri N. Rangan , Sergey V. Rylov
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Agent Steven Meyers, Esq.
- Main IPC: H03D3/24
- IPC: H03D3/24 ; H04L7/00 ; H04L7/033 ; H03L7/081 ; H04L27/34

Abstract:
System, method and computer program product for setting phase control codes to (in-phase) I and (quadrature) Q rotators to a first code pair, different by enough to produce a phase difference between the rotator outputs sufficient to be detected with minimal error by a phase-to-voltage converter. Auxiliary trim DACs are then adjusted according to calibration logic until a comparator output detects a phase difference between the I and Q rotators are within tolerable limits. The resulting trim codes are stored for both the codes in the pair. These trim codes along with the main codes are subsequently applied whenever the codes are used thereafter. These steps are repeated with each successive code pair having the same separation as the first code pair, e.g. both incremented by same amount until all codes have been calibrated. In this manner having the phase separation between all code pairs forced to the same value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160182216A1 PHASE INTERPOLATOR CALIBRATION Public/Granted day:2016-06-23
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