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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2005
Daniel A. Berkram, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Perry M. Wyatt, Fort Collins, CO (US);
David T. Newsome, Denver, CO (US);
Daniel A. Berkram, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Perry M. Wyatt, Fort Collins, CO (US);
David T. Newsome, Denver, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A multiphase clock generating apparatus includes a clock generator providing an M-clock having a frequency M times that of a received reference clock. Divider circuitry is coupled to provide an alignment signal having 1/M the frequency of the M-clock. A recovery circuit recovers up to M distinct clocks from the M-clock in accordance with the alignment signal. The recovered clocks have substantially an N•°/M phase difference from each other, wherein N≧