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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2020
Applicant:
Vdw Design, Llc, Madison, WI (US);
Inventor:
Daniel W. van der Weide, Madison, WI (US);
Assignee:
vdW Design, LLC, Madison, WI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03D 3/24 (2006.01); H03L 7/087 (2006.01); H03L 7/097 (2006.01); H03L 7/091 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/087 (2013.01); H03L 7/091 (2013.01); H03L 7/097 (2013.01);
Abstract
A phase detector using nonlinearities to distort and compress waveforms of the reference and the unknown sources. This waveform distortion creates a region of phase in which the slew rate is greater than that of the input sinusoid, enabling a larger phase detector constant.