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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Herbert Knapp, Munich, DE;
Wilhelm Wilhelm, Munich, DE;
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
377 47 ; 327115 ; 327117 ; 377 48 ;
Abstract
A frequency divider such as a dual modulus prescaler has a division factor switchable between 1/N and 1/(N+1) and an input frequency of approximately 1 GHz as occurs, for example, in mobile telecommunication systems (GSM or DECT telephones). Low power consumption is achieved by using only the input flipflop to process the relatively high input frequency and an intermediate signal having only half the frequency is supplied to an intermediate divider and an output signal is already taken at a penultimate stage of a divider expansion connected following the intermediate divider.