Invention Grant
- Patent Title: All-digital-phase-locked-loop having a time-to-digital converter circuit with a dynamically adjustable offset delay
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Application No.: US14975834Application Date: 2015-12-20
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Publication No.: US09774336B2Publication Date: 2017-09-26
- Inventor: Yao-Hong Liu
- Applicant: Stichting IMEC Nederland
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: Stichting IMEC Nederland
- Current Assignee: Stichting IMEC Nederland
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- Priority: EP14199426 20141219
- Main IPC: H03L7/06
- IPC: H03L7/06 ; H03L7/099 ; H03L7/091 ; G04F10/00 ; H03L7/081

Abstract:
An all-digital-phase-locked-loop (ADPLL) includes a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) arranged to generate a DCO output signal, and a feedback loop comprising a set of components for controlling the DCO. The set of components comprise: a time-to-digital converter (TDC) arranged to generate a TDC output code indicative of the phase difference between the reference signal and the enable signal measured within the predetermined observation window; a subset of components arranged to generate the enable signal from the DCO output signal; and an offset calibration system connected to the TDC output, which when activated is arranged to evaluate the difference between the first and second offset delay values by monitoring the TDC output code generated over a predetermined period of time, and to adjust the difference to position the predetermined observation window with respect to the reference signal.
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