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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2002
Charles C. Warner, Forest Grove, OR (US);
Bryan J. Dinteman, Canby, OR (US);
Credence Systems Corporation, Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A timing signal generator including a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS), a divide-by-N counter, and a pattern generator, produces a TIMING signal conveying a timed sequence of pulses. The pattern generator produces a sequence of data pairs (FREQ,N), with each pair being produced in response to each pulse of the TIMING signal and indicating a time interval that is to occur between that TIMING signal pulse and a next TIMING signal pulse. The DDFS produces an output sine wave signal (SINE) having a frequency controlled by the current FREQ data output of the pattern generator. The divide-by-N counter produces the timing signal pulses. It counts cycles of the SINE signal occurring since it last produce a TIMING signal pulse and generates a next TIMING signal when it has counted the number of SINE signal pulses indicated by the current N data output of the pattern generator.