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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1997
Robert B Puckette, Corvallis, OR (US);
Preston D Brown, Eugene, OR (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A clock reference frequency is digitally derived from a base signal, then digitally modulated by ramping the clock reference frequency up and down about a desired frequency. The modulation occurs in periodic fashion at a prescribed modulation frequency. Such modulation spreads the electromagnetic energy of the system signals over a band that is a portion of the desired clock frequency. As a result, energy in harmonics of the respective system signals also are spread. When the energy spreading of any system signal or harmonic of such signal occurs over a bandwidth greater than the 120 kHz bandwidth of conventional communication receivers, adverse EMI emissions are reduced.