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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2004
Applicants:
Colin Lyden, Cork, IE;
Michael F. Keaveney, Lisnagry, IE;
Patrick Walsh, Limerick, IE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A gain compensation technique for a fractional-N phase lock loop includes locking a reference signal with the N divider feedback signal in a phase lock loop including a phase detector, charge pump, loop filter and voltage control oscillator with an N divider in its feedback loop; driving the N divider with a sigma delta modulator including at least one integrator to obtain a predetermined fractional-N feedback signal; and commanding a scaling in phase lock loop gain by a predetermined factor and synchronously inversely scaling by that factor the contents of at least one of the integrators.