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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Roland Marbot, Sassenage, FR;
Guillaume Couzon, Grenoble, FR;
Assignee:
STMicroelectronics S.A., Gentilly, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/06 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/06 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a phase-locked loop circuit including: a programmable ring oscillator generating drive signals, an assembly of latches receiving an input signal of the circuit, the latches being driven by the drive signals and generating samples by sampling of the input signal, and a logic decoding circuit receiving samples generated by latches and accordingly driving the oscillator.