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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2006
Applicant:
Wing J. Mar, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Inventor:
Wing J. Mar, Rohnert Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 21/00 (2006.01); H03K 23/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This invention adds a non-linear sweep accumulator to the conventional sigma-delta fractional-N divider to produce a N.F value that is a polynomial function of time. This allows any non-linear sweep profiles to be approximated.