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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas J Kundmann, Streamwood, IL (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L / ; H04L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
375308 ; 375303 ;
Abstract
A direct digital frequency synthesizer increases the frequency resolution of the analog output signal by using fractionalization techniques. The best integer value I.sub.FR of a digital signal is determined and the next integer value I.sub.FR +1 of a digital signal is used to determine a weighted fractionalized value of the digital signal. The fractionalized value of the digital signal is used to synthesize the analog output signal having increased frequency resolution. In addition, IFR and IFR+1 are optimally distributed during the weighting process to ensure a minimum cumulative phase error.