Alcatel USA

Raymond K Driskill

Robert W Cantwell

John C Bellamy

Michael J Hanlon

A digital desynchronizer (10) includes an elastic store unit (12) that receives a synchronously mapped asynchronous data signal (14) and outputs asynchronous output data over an asynchronous output data signal (20) in response to an output clock signal (22). The output clock signal (22) is generated by a digitally controlled oscillator (24). The digitally controlled oscillator (24) receives a speed up signal (28) and a slow down signal (30) from a jitter accumulator (26) in order to adjust the clock rate of the output clock signal (22). The jitter accumulator (26) compares retimed read address information (32) to write address information (34) from the elastic store unit (12), subtracts an initial bias, adds the result to any previous sum, and compares this final result to programmable threshold levels in order to determine whether or not to assert the speed up signal (28) or the slow down signal (30). The clock rate of the output clock signal (22) is adjusted by a speed up factor, a slow down factor, or a nominal factor in response to the comparison of the read address information (32) and the write address information (34). The jitter accumulator (26) has programmable thresholds comprised of a lower threshold signal (72) and an upper threshold signal (76) to establish the rate of integration of the incoming jitter or wander. The asynchronous output data thus has a programmable logarithmically integrated frequency response.

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Raymond K Driskill