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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2018
Allegro Microsystems, Llc, Manchester, NH (US);
Mackenzie Tope, West Manchester, NH (US);
Kapil Kesarwani, Bedford, NH (US);
Allegro MicroSystems, LLC, Manchester, NH (US);
Abstract
A tunable fractional phase locked loop (PLL) (hereinafter 'tunable PLL') is described herein and includes a controller configured to tune the tunable PLL to a range of frequencies corresponding to a frequency of the input clock signal. The tunable PLL includes a phase detector configured to receive an input clock signal and a feedback signal, a voltage controller oscillator (VCO) configured to receive the error signal from said phase detector and in response thereto to generate a VCO clock signal, a controller configured to generate a dithered division ratio having an average value corresponding to a ratio of a number of edges of the VCO clock signal generated in a cycle of the input clock signal, and a feedback module configured to generates a feedback signal to tune the PLL such that the PLL operates in the range of input frequencies of the input clock signal.