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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2001
Konstantin Kouznetsov, San Diego, CA (US);
Daniel Linebarger, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a method and system for a fully programmable modulus pre-scaler. In one embodiment, the pre-scaler is a cascade of fully programmable divide-by-⅔ sections. A fully programmable divide-by-⅔ section includes a state machine and a control circuit. The state machine generates a modulus control output synchronously with a clock signal in response to a modulus control input and a programming signal. The state machine has a plurality of states corresponding to a ⅔ divider. The control circuit is coupled to the state machine to generate the programming signal to the state machine in response to a programming word for a frequency divider.