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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Brian P. Sutton, West Linn, OR (US);
Assignee:
Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/093 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/093 ;
Abstract
A reduced lock time phase locked loop has a speed up circuit with an operational amplifier to amplify a differential voltage across a filter resistor of an RC noise filter, the RC noise filter coupling a coarse tune voltage to a VCO. The amplifed differential voltage is applied to the bases of a pair of opposite polarity transistors, the emitters of the transistors being coupled to a filter capacitor in the RC noise filter for rapid charging/discharging. Alternatively the amplified differential voltage is applied to a pair of parallel, opposite polarity diodes coupled to the filter capacitor for rapid charging/discharging.