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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2020
Realtek Semiconductor Corporation, Hsinchu, TW;
An-Ming Lee, Hsinchu County, TW;
Chia-Liang Lin, Fremont, CA (US);
Yo-Hao Tu, New Taipei, TW;
Yu-Hsiang Chen, Hsinchu, TW;
REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION, Hsinchu, TW;
Abstract
An apparatus is provided that includes a frequency doubler circuit and a duty cycle adjusting circuit. The frequency doubler circuit includes a multiplexer, a variable delay circuit and a divide-by-2 circuit. The multiplexer selects one of a first and a second clock signals having opposite phases according to a selection signal to generate a frequency doubled clock signal. The variable delay circuit delays the frequency doubled clock signal. The divide-by-2 circuit divides a frequency of the frequency doubled clock signal to generate the selection signal. The duty cycle adjusting circuit includes an average voltage generation circuit and a comparison circuit. The average voltage generation circuit generates an average voltage value of the frequency doubled clock signal. The comparison circuit generates a control signal according to a comparison result of the average voltage value and a reference voltage to control the duty cycle of the frequency doubled clock signal.