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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 1986
Filed:
Dec. 21, 1984
Frederic J Hirzel, Cupertino, CA (US);
Roy J Levy, Ashland, OR (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for rapidly recovering the clock from Manchester-encoded signals using simple digital techniques is provided for use in an inexpensive Manchester-encoding receiver. The received Manchester-encoded signal is monitored to determine zero-voltage crossing. At each such crossing the frequency of the recovered clock is adjusted by comparing the occurrence of the zero-crossing with respect to the midpoint of the period of the presently-generated recovered clock. Shorten, center or lengthen adjustment signals are generated as a result of this comparison which are used to shorten or lengthen, by 1/16 increments of the inter-bit period of the received data signal, the period of the next-generated recovered-clock. The method is readily implemented as a sixteen-stage programmable counter providing a phase-locked loop.