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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2022
Applicant:
The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA (US);
Inventor:
Alexander Clifton Utter, Hawthorne, CA (US);
Assignee:
THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION, El Segundo, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/099 (2006.01); G01S 19/21 (2010.01); H03L 7/07 (2006.01); H03L 7/087 (2006.01); H04B 17/13 (2015.01); H04L 7/033 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/0992 (2013.01); G01S 19/21 (2013.01); H03L 7/07 (2013.01); H03L 7/087 (2013.01); H04B 17/13 (2015.01); H04L 7/033 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus that measures elapsed time in digital systems with multiple clocks includes a vernier reference (VREF) configured to generate a reference counter signal with a numeric output and two reference clock signals. The apparatus also includes a plurality of synchronizer VPLLs configured to receive the reference counter signal and the two reference clock signals and generate a plurality of synchronized counters, each synchronized counter being co-linear with the reference counter and operating in a respective target clock domain.