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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2001
Matthias Locher, San Jose, CA (US);
Koninklijke Phillips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
In a frequency synthesizer with a phase locked loop a charge pump ( ) is present with an idle path ( -C, -C, ). The idle path ( -C, -C, ) is activated only shortly before an up or down pulse appears at an output ( ) of a phase frequency detector ( ) and the idle path ( -C, -C, ) is disabled shortly after the disappearance of an up or down signal. Means ( ) to generate a signal for controlling the enablement and disablement of the idle path ( -C, -C, ) may comprise a down-counter divider ( ) or a zipper divider ( ).
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