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Date of Patent:
Jun. 17, 2008

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2002
Applicants:

Noshir Behli Dubash, San Pedro, CA (US);

Robert Tso, South San Gabriel, CA (US);

Inventors:

Noshir Behli Dubash, San Pedro, CA (US);

Robert Tso, South San Gabriel, CA (US);

Assignee:

SiRF Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03D 3/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A fractional-R synthesizer having a divider with rational increments and configurable in rational steps able to generate a plurality of frequencies in rational increments from a reference frequency. A voltage-controlled oscillator frequency (f) is related to the reference frequency (f) by: f=f/R, where Ris the average value of the rational divide value 'R' over a large number of reference cycles.


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