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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 1986
Filed:
Aug. 18, 1983
Dan H Wolaver, Worcester, MA (US);
General Signal, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A wide range, variable rate clock recovery circuit for NRZ data is provided having a PLL and a frequency synthesizer which share control of a common VCO in single loop realization. Narrow PLL bandwidths and short acquisition time may be achieved employing the frequency synthesizer to initially control the VCO to produce an estimate of the data frequency which is accurate to within the bandwidth of the PLL. Once this VCO frequency is attained, the PLL disables the frequency synthesizer control of the VCO and provides fine tuning control of the VCO output frequency itself. Single loop realization is achieved with a wide range VCO which includes a narrow range VCO, a frequency divider, and an auto-ranging circuit.