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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2006
Michael F. Keaveney, Lisnagry, IE;
Michael F. Keaveney, Lisnagry, IE;
Analog Devices, Inc., Norwood, MA (US);
Abstract
A fractional-N synthesizer system including a plurality of fractional-N synthesizers all updated to simultaneously generate an output frequency from the same reference frequency, a phase locked loop having an output signal whose frequency is a fractional multiple of the input reference frequency; the phase locked loop including a frequency divider, an interpolator responsive to an input fraction to provide to the frequency divider an output which has a fractional value equal to on average, the input fraction; and a timeout circuit responsive to the reference frequency for generating an output a predetermined time after updating to initialize the interpolator in each synthesizer to the same start conditions for locking together the phase of the frequency outputs of all of the synthesizers at the updated frequency.