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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Patrik Larsson, Matawan, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
377 48 ; 377 47 ; 327115 ; 327117 ;
Abstract
In systems embodying the invention X clock signals having the same frequency, with each clock signal having a different phase, are supplied to the inputs of a multiplexer whose output is connected to the input of an 'integer' frequency divider circuit; where X is an integer greater than 1. The mulitplexer is controlled to selectively supply different ones of the X clock signals to the frequency divider circuit for producing at the output of the frequency divider circuit a signal whose frequency is a function of the divider ratio of the frequency divider circuit and the sequencing of the clock signals supplied to the frequency divider circuit.