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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 31, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Paul M Elliott, Jenner, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
327115 ; 377 48 ;
Abstract
In accordance with the invention, a method and structure are provided for obtaining a ratio of M/(2.sup.N +K) by feeding various carry-out (and/or complemented carry-out) signals from full-adders back to various frequency control inputs of the full-adders to modify the denominator of the division ratio. By doing this, K additional or fewer counts are accumulated during each cycle. Thus, the denominator can be changed from 2.sup.N to 2.sup.N +K, where K can be either positive or negative to obtain the desired M/(2.sup.N +K) ratio.