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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2000
David L. Anderson, Kutztown, PA (US);
Naresh Gupta, Berwyn, PA (US);
Thomas L. Shewell, Oley, PA (US);
Thomas F. Strelchun, Mertztown, PA (US);
Abstract
Intermittent miscounts generated by counters used in a phase-locked loop (“PLL”) are precisely measured by detecting changes to a predetermined waveform, such as a sawtooth waveform. The miscounts are detected using an open loop, not closed loop, set-up which comprises two separate signal generators feeding two separate frequencies into MAIN and REF counters of a PLL. Offsetting the frequencies slightly and integrating an output generates the predetermined waveform. Thereafter, miscounts can be detected by comparing waveforms corresponding to miscounts to theoretically predicted, predetermined waveforms.