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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 29, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1997
Frank M Dunlap, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vincent S Tso, Milpitas, CA (US);
Sierra Semiconductor, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to providing a phase detector capable of establishing phase-locked-loop operation in a highly accurate and reliable manner. For example, exemplary embodiments detect a phase difference between at least two input signals to phase lock the input signals to one another. Exemplary embodiments include two phase detectors each of which receives the two input signals (e.g., three-state phase detectors), and each of which is forced to operate outside of its dead-band region by introducing predetermined phase delays for its inputs. Each of the two phase detectors detects a phase difference between its respective inputs. The two phase differences are then combined to produce a composite output signal formed as a net charge proportional to the net phase difference detected by the two phase detectors.