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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:
Mar. 11, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Shannon A. Wichman, McKinney, TX (US);
Assignee:
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 1/900 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides a divider circuit for frequency division of input clock signals, and a method operating and a phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit incorporating the same. In one embodiment, the divider circuit includes a counting subcircuit configured to count rising and falling edges of an input signal. In addition, the divider circuit includes, a signal generator configured to provide an output signal by performing an operation on the count of the rising and falling edges of the input signal based on a divisor control signal.