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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2019
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Thomas Mayer, Linz, AT;
Peter Preyler, Weyer, AT;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) circuit is disclosed. The DCO circuit comprises a tuning circuit configured to tune an oscillation frequency of the DCO circuit based on processing an integer tuning codeword and a fractional tuning codeword associated with an input tuning codeword. In some embodiments, the tuning circuit comprises an integer tuning circuit configured to process the integer tuning codeword and a fractional tuning circuit configured to process the fractional tuning codeword, in order to implement the input tuning codeword. In some embodiments, the integer tuning codeword comprises an integer tuning range associated therewith and the fractional tuning codeword comprises a fractional tuning range associated therewith. In some embodiments, the fractional tuning range associated with the fractional tuning codeword is configured to cover more than one step of the integer tuning range associated with the integer tuning codeword.