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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 06, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Pawel Owczarczyk, Highland, NY (US);

Michael Sperling, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Miguel E. Perez, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03D 3/24 (2006.01); H03L 7/099 (2006.01); H03L 7/093 (2006.01); H03L 5/00 (2006.01); H03L 7/07 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/0991 (2013.01); H03L 5/00 (2013.01); H03L 7/07 (2013.01); H03L 7/093 (2013.01); H03L 7/0997 (2013.01); H03L 2207/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A technique relates to a digital phase locked loop (DPLL) including a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO), the DCO having delay elements and a current fill factor corresponding to a proportion of the delay elements in operation. A voltage regulator controller is operable to obtain a result of a comparison between a predefined fill factor and the current fill factor, the voltage regulator controller being operable to adjust voltage supplied to the DCO based on the result, the predefined fill factor indicating a predetermined proportion of the delay elements to be in operation.


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