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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:
Jun. 01, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 07, 2018
Applicant:

Knowles Electronics, Llc, Itasca, IL (US);

Inventors:

Andrew Fitting, Itasca, IL (US);

Niel Warren, Itasca, IL (US);

Geert Knapen, Itasca, IL (US);

Assignee:

Knowles Electronics, LLC, Itasca, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/06 (2006.01); H04J 3/06 (2006.01); H03H 17/06 (2006.01); H03K 3/037 (2006.01); H03K 7/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/0617 (2013.01); H03H 17/0664 (2013.01); H03K 3/0372 (2013.01); H03K 7/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein include a system and a method of synchronizing a slave device to a signal from a master device based on pulse width analysis. The pulse width analysis is a process to sample the signal at a sampling frequency of the slave device, determine varying pulse widths of the sampled signal, and determine frequency of an embedded master clock signal of the signal based on statistical analysis of the varying pulse widths. Advantageously, performing pulse width analysis allows synchronization of a slave device with the embedded master clock signal in a time and cost efficient manner. In one aspect, determining a frequency of the embedded master clock signal and adjusting an internal clock of the slave device according to the determined frequency is faster and more cost efficient than iteratively adjusting the internal clock based on feedback loop based circuitries.


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