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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2019
Nxp Usa, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Olivier Doaré, La Salvetat St Gilles, FR;
Didier Salle, Toulouse, FR;
Cristian Pavao Moreira, Frouzins, FR;
Julien Orlando, Toulouse, FR;
Jean-Stephane Vigier, Mondonville, FR;
Andres Barrilado Gonzalez, Toulouse, FR;
NXP USA, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A communication unit includes a plurality of cascaded devices that include at least one master device and at least one slave device configured in a master-slave arrangement. The at least one master device and at least one slave device each include: a demodulator circuit configured to receive a distributed reference clock signal and re-create a system clock signal therefrom; a clock generation circuit that includes an internally-generated reference phase locked loop configured to receive the re-created system clock signal to create a master-slave clock signal; and an analog-to-digital converter, ADC, coupled to the reference phase locked loop and configured to use a same master-slave clock signal to align respective sampling instants between each ADC of the at least one master device and at least one slave device.