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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
John M. Ross, Matawan, NJ (US);
Peter Keller, Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Globespanvirata, Inc., Red Bank, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 2/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 2/100 ;
Abstract
A system and method is presented for dividing a reference clock frequency by any real number. The invention allows for a real number divisor that could have any desired degree of precision. Additionally, the invention seeks to minimize hardware complexity in realizing such a reference-clock frequency divider. In one particular embodiment of the invention, a system and method is presented, wherein the real number divisor is a real number having a repeating decimal (i.e., the real number may be represented by a fraction).