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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 16, 1992
Nokia Mobile Phones, Ltd., Salo, FI;
Abstract
An FM or PM signal is demodulated so that the cycle time of the modulated input signal is measured using a time-to-digital converter comprising a counter that uses a moderate clock frequency as a reference clock, a digital delay line interpolator and a control circuitry. The counter is used for rough digitization and the delay line for interpolating the moment of zero-crossing inside a clock cycle. Total delay of the delay line, i.e., the range of time intervals the interpolator is able to measure, is actively kept equal to the cycle time of the reference clock. When the number of delay elements in the delay line is a power of two, the result of the delay line interpolator may be used directly as the least significant bits of the measurement.