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Patent No.:

US 6531903 B1

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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.


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Wichman, Shannon. (2003). Divider circuit, method of operation thereof and a phase-locked loop circuit incorporating the same (U.S. Patent No. 6531903). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/6531903

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